When South Africa filed its case (Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip – South Africa v Israel) at the International Court of Justice on December 29, 2023 (see the full case records and updates of the International Court of Justice here), the horrific assault on the Gaza Strip and its inhabitants was still in an early stage.
Today I read that children of the deplorable people in Gaza are still dying, having so far survived in the rubble while hardly protected from storm, flooding and cold. More than one year after a so-called, coerced, by Donald Trump’s infamous and laughable “Board of Peace”, ceasefire.
It will take years until a final verdict has been made at the ICJ. While in progressive and left-leaning media outlets it is long common place that Israel committed/commits genocide, former ICJ President Joan Donoghue has clarified, in a BBC Hardtalk interview, that the ICJ has ruled something else.
According to Donoghue the court only ruled Palestinians had a “plausible right” to be protected from genocide, and that there was a “real and imminent risk” of irreparable prejudice to those rights.
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