Israel to contest South Africa’s ‘blood libel’ at The Hague
Israel will appear before the International Court of Justice in The Hague to challenge South Africa’s application for an order declaring that Jerusalem is violating the UN’s Genocide Convention in its war against Hamas following the Gaza-ruling terrorist group’s murderous October 7 onslaught, government spokesman Ceylon Levy says.
“In giving political and legal cover to the October 7 massacre and the Hamas human-shields strategy, South Africa has made itself criminally complicit with Hamas’s campaign of genocide against our people,” Levy says in a press briefing.
Saying that the State of Israel will appear at The Hague to “dispel South Africa’s absurd blood libel,” Levy accuses South Africa of “fighting pro bono for anti-Jewish racists.”
“We assure South Africa’s leaders – history will judge you, and it will judge you without mercy,” he adds.
South Africa asked the ICJ on Friday for an urgent order declaring that Israel was in breach of its obligations under the 1948 Genocide Convention in its crackdown against Hamas.
“The State of Israel will appear before the International Court of Justice at The Hague to dispel South Africa’s absurd blood libel,” spokesman Eylon Levy told an online briefing.
Recall that Hamas killed about 1,200 people, most of them civilians. They also took about 240 others hostage.
More than 22,000 people, mostly children and women, have been killed in Gaza during Israeli attacks, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.
The ICJ is based in The Hague, in the Netherlands. It settles disputes between states and gives advisory opinions on international legal issues.
