{"id":202213,"date":"2023-12-29T16:53:31","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T20:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=202213"},"modified":"2023-12-29T16:59:14","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T20:59:14","slug":"israel-sued-for-genocide-in-the-hague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=202213","title":{"rendered":"<h1><b>Israel sued for \u2018genocide\u2019 in The Hague<\/b><\/h1>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Israel sued for \u2018genocide\u2019 in The Hague<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/589909-south-africa-israel-war-crimes-icc\/\">READ HERE<\/a>:<\/strong> South Africa has filed an appeal before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, alleging that Israeli actions in Gaza amount to\u00a0<em>\u201cgenocide\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and asking for\u00a0<em>\u201cprovisional measures\u201d<\/em>\u00a0to stop it, the top UN court announced on Friday.<\/h3>\n<h3>The application claims\u00a0<em>\u201cacts and omissions by Israel&#8230; are genocidal in character, as\u00a0they are committed with the requisite specific intent &#8230; to destroy Palestinians in Gaza as a part of the broader Palestinian national, racial and ethnical group,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the ICJ said in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.icj-cij.org\/sites\/default\/files\/case-related\/192\/192-20231229-pre-01-00-en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement<\/a>.<\/h3>\n<h3>Israel\u2019s conduct towards the Palestinians in Gaza\u00a0<em>\u201cis in violation of its obligations under the Genocide Convention,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the government in Pretoria said. They also accused Israel of having\u00a0<em>\u201cfailed to prevent genocide\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>\u201cfailed to prosecute the direct and public incitement to genocide\u201d<\/em>\u00a0since October 7.<\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel sued for \u2018genocide\u2019 in The Hague<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=202213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=202213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=202213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=202213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}