USA criticized on Wednesday South Africa for filing a genocide case against Israel before the highest court of the UNand rejected the accusations against his ally for the war in Loop.
The International Court of Justice in The Hague will hold hearings next week on a lawsuit filed by South Africa in which he alleges acts “genocidal“against the people of Loop and seeks to order Israel to end the military operation.
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“We do not believe it is a productive step“said the US State Department spokesperson, Matthew Milleron South Africa’s request.
“Up to this point we have not seen acts that constitute genocide”Miller told reporters.
“Genocide is, of course, atrocious cruelty“, he claimed. “These are accusations that should not be made lightly.”.
Israel has angrily rejected the accusation, with the Foreign Ministry calling it “blood libel”, in reference to ancient anti-Semitic conspiracies.
South Africa has often criticized Israel and drawn parallels with its own history of apartheid.
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In the request for HagueSouth Africa says Israel has been acting “with the required specific intent… to destroy the Palestinians of Gaza as part of the broader national, racial and ethnic group of Palestinians”.
Fighters of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas They infiltrated Israel October 7 and killed about 1,140 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP count based on official Israeli figures.
In response to the deadliest attack in its history, Israel launched a relentless offensive that has reduced vast areas of Gaza to rubble and claimed more than 22,300 lives, according to the territory’s health ministry. Hamas.
