Israel’s struggle to deflect the genocide case
| Israel's foreign ministry issued a directive on Thursday, asking its embassies around the world to put pressure on the host countries to call the accusations that South Africa brought against the regime in the International Court of Justice "baseless". |
Fars News Agency International Group; “Use all your efforts to avoid being condemned at the Hague Tribunal”, this is the text of the order of the Foreign Ministry of the Zionist regime on Thursday to the embassies of this regime around the world to invite diplomats and senior politicians in the host countries to issue statements against South Africa’s complaint in put pressure on the International Court of Justice; A complaint that accuses Israel of genocide due to the massacre of 22,722 Palestinians until today (the 92nd day of the Gaza war).
According to the analysis of the Axios news website, which received this telegram, the said message shows that Israel’s program before the hearings on January 11 and 12 (21 and 22) at the International Court of Justice, “create pressure It is up to the court not to issue a ruling that could force it to suspend its operations in Gaza.”
South Africa, which filed the case last week, says Israel’s actions in Gaza are genocide because they are aimed at exterminating the Palestinian population in the area and as the earliest result. has requested to stop Israeli operations while the case is ongoing.
Israel is one It is one of the signatories of the Genocide Convention, which was approved by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948, and therefore it is under the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice, an organ of the United Nations, and its rulings.
Israeli Foreign Ministry in the message He said to his embassies that Tel Aviv’s strategic goal is to prevent the issuance of a verdict, to prevent the recognition of genocide in Gaza and to recognize that operations in the Gaza Strip are being conducted according to international law. In the mentioned message, it is said that along with these efforts, the Prime Minister of the Zionist regime Benjamin Netanyahu will also send letters to dozens of world leaders.
The ruling against Israel in the court According to the Zionist regime’s own admission, international justice can have significant potential consequences not only in the legal field but also in bilateral and multilateral relations in economic and security terms for this regime; In such circumstances, Israel is focused on winning this case.
Ann Herzberg, legal advisor at NGO Monitor – a conservative pro-Israel NGO based in occupied Jerusalem. , believes that “the nature of South Africa’s complaint is absurd”. Referring to the Al-Aqsa storm operation of the Palestinian resistance, he said, “Hamas’ massacre has been reduced to only two cleaned paragraphs in the summary of South Africa’s complaint, which is prepared on 84 pages”.
The international coalition formed to stop the genocide in Palestine with the participation of more than 100 human rights groups worldwide believes that Collective pressure from different countries can make a big turning point for Palestine in the International Court of Justice; According to this coalition, “the court should feel awake eyes to resist the strong American political pressure”.
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