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Genocide case against Israel
January 5 , 2024
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- South Africa moved the International Court of Justice (ICJ), for an urgent order declaring that Israel was in breach of its obligations under the 1948 Genocide Convention.
- The ICJ is a United Nations platform for resolving disputes between states.
- The term ‘genocide’ has been defined using set criteria in the UN’s Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide-1948.
- In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
- Killing members of the group;
- Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
- Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
- Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
- Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
- In 2019, the Gambia, on behalf of the OIC (Organisation of Islamic Cooperation), petitioned the court against Myanmar over its atrocities against the Rohingya people.
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