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   On 2024-11-04 2:20 p.m., NefeshBarYochai wrote:   
   > South Africa filed 750 pages of "overwhelming" proof that Israel is   
   > committing genocide in Gaza to the International Court of Justice in   
   > The Hague, Netherlands on Monday, the deadline for submitting final   
   > evidence in the ongoing trial.   
   >   
   > South African Ambassador to the Netherlands Vusi Madonsela delivered   
   > the legal document—known as a memorial—to the ICJ headquarters in the   
   > Dutch city. Under the court's rules, the contents of the memorial   
   > cannot be made public at this time.   
   >   
   > According to a statement from the office of South African President   
   > Cyril Ramaphosa, the memorial is a "comprehensive presentation of the   
   > overwhelming evidence of genocide in Gaza."   
   >   
   > The office said the document "contains evidence which shows how the   
   > government of Israel has violated the Genocide Convention by promoting   
   > the destruction of Palestinians living in Gaza, physically killing   
   > them with an assortment of destructive weapons, depriving them access   
   > to humanitarian assistance, causing conditions of life which are aimed   
   > at their physical destruction, and ignoring and defying several   
   > provisional measures of the International Court of Justice, and using   
   > starvation as a weapon of war and to further Israel's aims to   
   > depopulate Gaza through mass death and forced displacement of   
   > Palestinians."   
   >   
   > "The evidence will show that undergirding Israel's genocidal acts is   
   > the special intent to commit genocide, a failure by Israel to prevent   
   > incitement to genocide, to prevent genocide itself, and its failure to   
   > punish those inciting and committing acts of genocide," Ramaphosa's   
   > office added.   
   >   
   > South Africa's filing comes amid Israel's ongoing 387-day assault on   
   > Gaza, which according to Palestinian and international agencies has   
   > killed at least 43,020 people—most of them women and children. At   
   > least 101,110 others have been wounded and over 10,000 Gazans are   
   > missing and believed dead and buried beneath the rubble of hundreds of   
   > thousands of bombed homes and other structures. Millions more   
   > Palestinians have been forcibly displaced, starved, or sickened by   
   > Israel's invasion and "complete siege" of Gaza.   
   >   
   > The filing also comes one week after senior members of Israeli Prime   
   > Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right Cabinet and national lawmakers   
   > spoke at a conference advocating the ethnic cleansing and   
   > recolonization of Gaza.   
   >   
   > Ramaphosa's office lamented that "Israel has been granted   
   > unprecedented impunity to breach international law and norms for as   
   > long as the United Nations Charter has been in existence."   
   >   
   > "Israel's continued shredding of international law has imperiled the   
   > institutions of global governance that were established to hold all   
   > states accountable," the presidency's statement asserted. "The glaring   
   > genocide in Gaza is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to   
   > see."   
   >   
   > Ramaphosa's statement continues:   
   >   
   > The Palestinian struggle against imperialism, Israeli apartheid, and   
   > settler colonialism is the daily reality of the Palestinian people.   
   > Since 1948, they have faced various forms of colonization, often   
   > backed by historical colonial powers and, more recently, by states   
   > intent on shaping a world order in their interests. The global fight   
   > against settler colonialism persists in some parts of the world,   
   > including in occupied Palestine, both in Gaza and the West Bank. The   
   > international community cannot stand idly by while innocent   
   > civilians—including women, children, hospital workers, humanitarian   
   > aid workers, and journalists—are killed for simply being. That is a   
   > world we cannot accept.   
   >   
   > "We reiterate our appeal for an immediate cease-fire in Palestine, in   
   > Lebanon, and entire region, and the start of a political process to   
   > ensure a just and lasting peace," Ramaphosa's office added.   
   >   
   > South Africa also thanked the more than 30 countries and regional   
   > blocs, including the African Union and Arab League, that are   
   > supporting its case.   
   >   
   > It could take years for the ICJ to deliver judgment in the case. In   
   > July, the tribunal issued a nonbinding advisory opinion that Israel's   
   > occupation of Palestine—including the West Bank, Eastern Jerusalem,   
   > Gaza, and Syrian Golan Heights—is an illegal form of apartheid that   
   > must end "as rapidly as possible."   
   >   
   > South Africa's filing came on the same day that Francesca Albanese,   
   > the U.N. special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the   
   > occupied Palestinian territories, published a report on Israeli   
   > "genocide as colonial erasure" in Palestine.   
   >   
   > Israel vehemently denies it is committing genocide in Gaza, a position   
   > shared by the Biden administration, the country's main benefactor.   
   >   
   > Palestine advocates welcomed Monday's filing, with Council on   
   > American-Islamic Relations national executive director Nihad Awad   
   > thanking South African leaders "for helping expose the far-right   
   > Israeli government's genocide and genocidal intent in Gaza to the   
   > world community."   
   >   
   > "This detailed submission also further exposes the Biden   
   > administration's criminal complicity with Israel's genocide in Gaza,"   
   > Awad added. "President [Joe] Biden should end his complicity with   
   > genocide by stopping arms deliveries to Israel and forcing an   
   > immediate cease-fire."   
   >   
   > The Biden administration and Congress have provided Israel with tens   
   > of billions of dollars worth of armed aid and diplomatic cover to   
   > continue its war.   
   >   
   > Francis Boyle, a professor of international law at the University of   
   > Illinois College of Law, noted that "Israel has violated three prior   
   > orders from the court" and "has also violated the decision on Rafah of   
   > May."   
   >   
   > "Just after that decision, Biden put out his ridiculous statement that   
   > Israel had agreed to a cease-fire, which it obviously didn't," he   
   > continued. "The Biden administration's phony 'cease-fire negotiations'   
   > maneuvers have simply bought Israel more time to commit more crimes,   
   > including its recent annihilation of northern Gaza."   
   >   
   > "Given Israel's lack of respect for decisions of the court, it becomes   
   > imperative that these decisions have teeth," Boyle added. "The U.S.   
   > veto at the U.N. Security Council has prevented that body from doing   
   > its job. So, the U.N. General Assembly should utilize its Uniting for   
   > Peace procedure to take control of the situation and recommend an arms   
      
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