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Israel on Friday argued in response to the South African charge against it at the International Court of Justice in Hague, Netherlands under the 948 Genocide Convention that it didn’t start the war but was defending itself from the violence visited upon it by Hamas’s 7 October where 1 200 people were killed and 240 were abducted.
Israel was making its submission at the second day of the ICJ hearings at the Peace Palace in The Hague, where it maintained its stance that its retaliatory attacks on Gaza for the past three months, were in self defence.
The two-day hearing at the ICJ was brought by the South African government to try and stop the genocide perpetrated by Israel in Gaza where almost 30 000 people have been killed, almost half of them children and almost 2 million displaced, since Israel’s war with Hamas started in October 2023.
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