We have just listened to three hours of very detailed descriptions of what South Africa says is a very compelling case of genocide that Israel is now committing in Gaza, Al Jazeera’s Step Vaessen reports from The Hague.
South Africa is asking the court to quickly decide on urgent provisional measures to ask Israel to stop whatever it is doing: military action, mass displacement, depriving Gazans of food, shelter, water, and basic healthcare.
Historians, who have been following the ICJ for many years, say that this is the most detailed, most gruesome case so far.
