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The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, holds public hearings on the request for the indication of provisional measures submitted by South Africa in the case South Africa v. Israel on 11 and 12 January 2024, at the Peace Palace in The Hague, the seat of the Court.
The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, holds public hearings on the request for the indication of provisional measures submitted by South Africa in the case South Africa v. Israel on 11 and 12 January 2024, at the Peace Palace in The Hague, the seat of the Court.
A Department of Education policy adviser appointed by the Biden administration quit Wednesday to protest the administration’s crucial military support of Israel’s war in Gaza and its handling of the conflict’s repercussions at home and abroad.
THE HAGUE, 29 December 2023. South Africa today filed an application instituting proceedings against Israel before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, concerning alleged violations by Israel of its obligations under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (the “Genocide Convention”) in relation to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Shuja’iyya (also Shejaiya, Shijaiyeh, Shujayya, Shuja’ia, Shuja’iya, per Wikipedia) is a neighborhood east of Gaza City. An IDF soldier’s video captured the moment the entire neighborhood was destroyed, with the screams of dying Palestinians audible on the video.
On Saturday, 16 December 2023, an Israeli sniper shot and killed Nahida Boulos and her daughter Samar Anton (pictured right) as they were walking inside the compound of the Holy Family Church in Gaza. Seven more people were shot and wounded.
On 13 December 2023, the IDF entered the Shadia Abu Ghazaleh School, near Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza North and arrested all of the men, presumably for another “HAMAS is surrendering” photo op. The women, children, and infants left behind were brutally killed with gunfire, leaving “dozens” of bodies piled behind.
We, scholars of the Holocaust, genocide, and mass violence, feel compelled to warn of the danger of genocide in Israel’s attack on Gaza.
