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‘Israel’s genocidal acts’ against Palestinians: South Africa presents key claims
11 January 2024 10:02 GMT
Hassim outlined key points in Israel’s second genocidal acts against Palestinians in Gaza.
- Israel’s attacks have left close to 60,000 Palestinians wounded and maimed, the majority of them women and children. This in circumstances where the healthcare system has all that collapsed.
- Large numbers of Palestinian civilians, including children, are arrested, blindfolded, forced to undress and loaded on to trucks taken to unknown locations. The suffering of the Palestinian people, physical and mental is undeniable.
- Israel has deliberately imposed conditions on Gaza that cannot sustain life and are calculated to bring about its physical destruction … by displacement.
- Israel has forced – forced – the displacement of about 85% of Palestinians in Gaza. There is nowhere safe for them to flee to.
- Israel’s first evacuation order on 13 October required the evacuation of over one million people including children, the elderly, the wounded, and infirm.
- The order itself was genocidal. It required immediate movement, taking only what could be carried while no humanitarian assistance was permitted. And fuel, water and food and other necessities of life had deliberately been cut off. It was clearly calculated to bring about the destruction of the population.