'Gaza has become a place of death and despair’, say South African lawyers

Blinne Ni Ghralaigh, another lawyer representing South Africa, has told the ICJ that:

• There is an urgent need for provisional measures to protect Palestinians in Gaza from the irreparable prejudice caused by Israel’s violation of the genocide convention.
• The UN secretary-general and its officials describe the situation in Gaza as ‘a crisis of humanity’, ‘a living hell’, ‘a bloodbath’, ‘a situation of utter deepening and unmatched horror where an entire population is besieged and under attack, denied access to the essentials for survival on a massive scale
• As an undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs stated last Friday, ‘Gaza has become a place of death and despair’