This is an entry from: Israel-Palestine live: Israel’s response to South Africa’s genocide case at the ICJ ends
'Israel has failed to prevent or to punish genocide': South Africa
11 January 2024 11:42 GMT
Du Plessis continues that UN bodies “have collectively considered the acts committed by Israel to be genocidal or at the very least warned that the Palestinian people [are] at risk of genocide”.
She also made the following points:
- Based on the materials before the court, the acts by Israel complained of are capable of being characterised as at least plausibly genocidal.
- The evidence of the specific genocidal intent is clear from the statements by Israeli government officials and soldiers towards Palestinians in Gaza and which may be characterised as at the very least plausibly genocidal. This at least plausible genocidal intent can also be deduced from the pattern of conduct against Palestinians in Gaza.
- It is also, again at the very least, plausible that Israel has failed to prevent or to punish genocide, conspiracy to commit genocide, direct and public incitement to genocide, attempted genocide and complicity in genocide.