MBABANE:Israel has disclosed that, it will defend the genocide case filed by South Africa with the International Court of Justice(ICJ) amid killing of civilians in Gaza.
Aljazeera reported that, South Africa has filed a case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), accusing Israel of crimes of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza after nearly three months of relentless Israeli bombardment has killed more than 21,500 people and caused widespread destruction in the besieged enclave.
It has been reported that, in an application to the court on Friday, South Africa described Israel’s actions in Gaza as “genocidal in character because they are intended to bring about the destruction of a substantial part of the Palestinian national, racial and ethnical group”.
“The acts in question include killing Palestinians in Gaza, causing them serious bodily and mental harm, and inflicting on them conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction,” the application said.
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu(pic: The Guardian).