PNN – Haaretz newspaper wrote that the military and political levels of the Israeli regime are deeply worried about the possibility of issuing a verdict of “committing genocide” in the International Court of Justice.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, the South African government has announced that it has filed a complaint against the Israeli regime to the International Court of Justice regarding the “commitment of genocide” in Gaza. An action that has caused deep concern at the security and political levels in Tel Aviv.
According to Haaretz newspaper, an Israeli legal expert has warned the high-ranking commanders of the Israeli army, especially the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Herzi Halevi, about the possibility of issuing a verdict in the International Court of Justice in recent days and warned them about the dangers of such a verdict.
In the meantime, the Israeli army and the prosecutor’s office are preparing to face South Africa’s complaint, and the Israeli Foreign Ministry is also going to hold a meeting on this issue today.
Haaretz newspaper quoted international law experts as saying that this action may lead to the confirmation of previous claims related to Israel’s genocide crimes and thus lead to international isolation and sanctions or the adoption of escalating steps against this regime.
Haaretz noted that unlike the International Criminal Court in The Hague, which deals with proceedings against individuals and entities, the International Court of Justice deals with legal and judicial disputes between countries. In the meantime, Israel does not recognize the jurisdiction of the Criminal Court, which is investigating war crimes committed by this regime, but on the other hand, it is one of the signatories of the Convention on the Prohibition of Genocide, according to which the Court of Justice is supposed to pay the complaint filed by South Africa.
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According to the law of the International Court of Justice, any country has the right to sue another country that has signed the convention, even if it is not the affected party.
South Africa, on Friday evening, complained to the International Court of Justice against the Israeli regime for the killing of the Palestinian people.
According to the report published by the International Court of Justice, South Africa has declared: “Israel’s actions and omissions have the characteristics of genocide because these actions have been accompanied by specific intentions… to destroy the Palestinians of Gaza as part of the great national, racial and ethnic group, the Palestinians.”
Following the complaint, Tel Aviv responded to South Africa’s action in a statement, claiming that South Africa’s complaint had no “legal basis”. The foreign ministry of this regime claimed: “South Africa cooperates with a terrorist group that wants to destroy Israel”.
Dr. Cheli Aviv Yeni, an international law expert at the University of Haifa, told Haaretz that the Israeli authorities should not consider the South African government’s complaint unimportant. According to him, the decisions of the International Court of Justice have a high weight in the basis of international laws, and its rulings shape the international community’s perspective.
87 days have passed since the war in Gaza and the Israeli regime is heavily bombarding the Gaza region from land, air and sea; So far, more than 1.5 million people have been displaced and about 22 thousand people have been martyred and 7 thousand people are missing and remained under the rubble.
In this regard, not long ago, Francesca Albanese, the UN human rights representative in the occupied Palestinian territories, said that Israel does not value the lives of the people of Gaza under the pretext of destroying Hamas. He described the actions and behavior of the Zionist regime towards the Palestinians, especially in Gaza, as the barbarity of the century, and addressing the Western countries, he said: The silence of the West regarding what is happening to the Palestinians has reached the stage of complicity [with Israel].