some of the greatest action of business and some of the most frustrating actions happens right here. the police 5 who's the fighters are killed after the american. and british military's on the lation massive bombing campaign on the m, and this private rebels with dollars to retaliate. 50 officials on the western coalition launched more than 70 strikes on yemen. several cities including the capital with on boarded, plus the hundreds raleigh in washington, dc and new york. while some american lawmakers from the white house for ordering the military strikes without approval from congress. also at the israel is set to present its rebuttal in response to

a lunmark pace. broad bite sought after a cap of choosing israel, of a genocide and the guys who were looking at live pictures. not as the judges just make their way on to the bumper terms with the building there shortly. we also got reaction to the case from the active as rum daughter of nelson mandela. i can say we have started to be able to, to tools intervene because we, i beat pets. best case studies, best practice all works. how the across the world around the clock. this is our team. welcome. wherever you are joining us from today, at least 5 people have been confirmed, killed, and 6 more injured and friday morning's bombing of them. and by the us of the u. k

. through t, rebel leaders have one that washington and london will pay a high price for attacking the country as well as supporting israel. we swear, even if we have broken down into adams instead of doing the air, we will not abandon guys a will continue to target zion and ships will confront america, force it to neil and bonus battleships, all of it spaces and everyone who called the race with it no matter the cost, we will not have ben garza that degrades void night where it's people we are. it's man. the will should prepare to hear familiar because the feed and i say with as a pride, we will try it in america without feet. and whoever does not know us will know or strength on the battlefield. the western strikes were launched without warning from war, plain ships and submarines in the red sea, the us and you pay us all the necessary response to the recent attacks in the region by the $15.00 military. there's little information about how much damage was

inflicted on evans infrastructure. put us more footage, comes in to us. we'll bring it to this footage so shows american and british jets taking off to bomb the country. london has confirmed on its pricing fighters took part in the sprites. a lot of navy already has to, for shifts in the red sea with another on the way. and the us also use the infamous tomahawk cruise missiles against the routine fighters. ok, let's switch a story for a moment because i want to bring you to the hague. we're israel has just begun presenting its defense to the side african law suits. and i've got to choose the country of genocide, lex, and gas, that we can listen out of a premeditated and heinous program for the total annihilation. given the jewish peoples history and its foundational text. it is not surprising that his route was among the 1st states to ratify the genocide convention without reservation and to

incorporate its provisions in its domestic legislation. for some the promise of never again for all peoples is a slogan. for israel, it is the highest moral obligation, raphael lumpkin, a polish, to witness the unspeakable horrors of all the cost is credited with cleaning the term genocide. he helped the world recognize that the existing legal lexicon was simply inadequate to capture the devastating evil that the nazi holocaust unleashed. the applicant has now sought to invoke this term in the context of israel's conduct in a war. it did not stop and did not want. a war in which is ro is defending itself against from us palestinian islamic jihad and other terrorist organizations,

whose brutality knows no bounds. the civilian suffering in this war, like in all was, is tragic. it is heartbreaking. the harsh realities of the car in hostilities i made especially agonizing for civilians, given commerce as reprehensible strategy of seeking to maximize civilian home. to both is riley's and palestinians, even as israel of 6 to minimize it. but as this court has already made clear, the genocide convention was not designed to address the brutal impact of intensive hostilities on the civilian population. even when the use of force raises, quote, very serious issues of international law and involves an enormous suffering and

continuing loss of life and quote. the convention was set upon to address a level and crime of the most exceptional severity as we live at a time. when woods are cheap. in an age of social media and identity politics, the temptation to reach for the most outrageous term to vilify and demonize has become so many irresistible. but if there is a place where words should still matter, which truth should still matter, it is surely a court of law. the applicant has regrettably put before the court. a profoundly distorted factual and legal picture. the entirety of its case hinges on it deliberately curated the contextualized and manipulative description

of the reality of current hostilities. south africa ports to come to this court in the last, the position of a guardian of the interest of humanity. but indeed, legitimize in israel. 75 year existence in its opening presentation yesterday. that broad commitment to humanity rend, hollow and in its sweeping counts effectual description of the israeli palestinian conflict. it seemed to erase both jewish history and any palestinian agency or responsibility. indeed, the dealer due to my zation of israel. since it's very establishment in 1940 eights in the applicant submissions sounded barely distinguishable from her must, his own rejection est rhetoric. it is on surprising therefore that any applicants

telling both from us as responsibility for the situation in gaza. and the very humanity of it is rightly victims removed from view. the attempt to weaponized the term genocide against israel in the present context. it does more than tell the court a grossly distorted story and it does more than empty the word of its unique force and special meaning. it's a virtue, the object and purpose of the convention itself with ramifications for all states seeking to defend themselves against those who demonstrate total distain for life. and for the lo met him president, members of the court on saturday, october 7th, a jewish religious holiday. thousands of hamas and other militants breached is riley silver and territory by sea land and their innovating over 20 is rarely

communities, bases and the side of the music system. what proceeded under the cover of thousands of rockets fired indiscriminately into israel was the wholesale mexican mutilation. write an abduction of as many citizens as the terrace could find before israel's forces withheld them. openly displaying a ration. they tortured children in front of parents and parents in front of children there and people, including infants, alive and systematically raped and mutilated schools of women. men and children all told some 1200 people with butchered that day. more than 5500 names and some 240 hostages, abducted including infants, entire families,

persons with disabilities and holocaust survivors. some of whom have since been executed, many of whom have been tortured, sexually abused and stop in captivity. representatives of the hostages families are in this courtroom today and we acknowledge the presence and they found the suffering we know of the brutality of october 7th. not only from the harrowing testimonies of the survivors, the unmistakable proof of cottage and sight isn't left behind. and the forensic evidence taken at the scene, we know it because the silence proudly films and broadcasts the bobbers. the events of that day are all but ignored in the applicant submissions that we are compelled to share with the court. some fraction of his heart of the largest

calculated mass murder of jews in a single day since the holocaust. we do so not because these acts, however sadistic and systematic release israel of its obligations to uphold the law as it defends its citizens and territory. that is on question. we do so because it is impossible to understand the conflict in gaza without appreciating the nature of the threat that he was really facing. and the brutality and lawlessness of the force confronting in the volume of materials submitted to members of the court access has been provided to a portion of the roll footage for separate screening. but i am obliged to put before the court today, some small fragment of the scenes of unfathomable cruelty that took place in

hundreds of locations on that horrible thing. johnny c months of a wheat farmer and his wife come a an activist for women's rights lived in cheap woods narrows. when the rocket fire started, but he didn't the safe for him with their 4 year old son on there. and this 6 year old twins are bill and shuffle during their rampage. i must smell it and set fire to their house. a johnny text that his sister renee the here that burning us with suffocating the whole family was been alive to ashes making dna identification especially difficult for survivor of the know the music festival massacre testified to police to witnessing of how much militant, brutally raping a young woman, as another militant cut off her breast and toyed with a 2nd,

militants then raped her again, shooting hurry, my head was still inside in one video recorded by a home surveillance system. how much militant throws a grenade into a safe front where a father and his 2 sons have rushed to hide? the father is killed. the 2 sons are injured and bleeding. as a militant pulls them into the living room. one child can be heard screaming to his brother. why am i alive? i can't see anything. they going to show us. the militant casually opened the fridge, takes out a bottle and drinks. and then there is this recording from 2 boats, miss austin. the

stated none of these atrocities absolve israel of its obligations under the law, but they do enable the court to appreciate 3 cor aspects of the present proceedings which the applicant has obscured from view. first is that if it has been acts that may be characterized as genocide, then i have been prep perpetrated against israel. if there is a concern about the obligations of states under the genocide convention, then it is in relation to their responsibilities to act against thomas's probably

declared agenda of annihilation. which is not a secret and is not in doubts. the un i licensed language of commerce, this chapter is repeated regularly by its leaders with the go in the words of one member of commerce as political bureau of the cleansing of palestine of the fills of the jews. it is expressed, nevertheless, chillingly, in the words of senior from us member. rather you come to live in each television on october 24th 2023. who refers to the october 7th, a tex. what hot must calls the lock for flood as follows, the

continuation of this interview, commodities ask commodities oft. does that mean the annihilation of israel? yes, of course. he says, the existence of israel is he logical? and then he says, nobody should blame us for the things we do on october 7th, october 10th, october 1 1000000. everything we do is justified and quote, given that on october 7th, before any military response by israel, south africa issued an official statement. blaming israel for quotes the recent conflagration, essentially blaming israel for the murder of its own citizens. one wonders whether the applicant agrees 2nd, it is in response to the slaughter of october 7th,

which from us open the valves to repeats and to the ongoing attacks against it from gaza. that israel has the inherent rights to take all legitimate measures to defend its citizens and secure the release of the hostages. this right is also not in doubt. it has been acknowledged by states across the world. astonishingly for court has been requested to indicate a provisional measure calling on israel to suspend its military operations. but this amounts to an attempt to deny israel its ability to meet its obligations to the defense of its citizens, to the hostages and to over a 110000 internally displaced these railings. unable to safely return to their homes. the applicant init submissions to the court makes almost no mention

of the ongoing humanitarian suffering of israel citizens at the hands of commerce and traits. the hostages still held in count dvd as bailey, an off the phone. but is there a reason these people on your screen around would be of protection the or how much is not

a party to these proceedings? the applicant, by its request, seeks to forward his rails in haven't right to defend itself to let him us not just get away with its murder, literally, but render israel defenseless has come. us continues to committed. yesterday, council for the applicant made the astonishing claim that is where i was denied this rights. and as a matter of fact, should not be able to protect itself from us as a tax. but allow me to draw attention to these words, written by professor fall in love, quotes the source of the attack, whether a state or non state actor is irrelevant to the existence of the right to defense. force may be used to avert a threat. because no one, no state, is obliged by law passively to suffer the delivery of an attack. israel agrees with

these words as i suspect what any sovereign states if the claim of the applicant now is that in the conflict between israel and from us, israel must be denied the ability to defend its citizens. then the upset upshot of south africa's argument is this under the guise of the allegation against israel of genocide. this court is asked to call for an end to operations against the ongoing attacks of an organization that puts use an actual genocidal agenda. an organization that has violated every past ceasefire and use that to re um, and plan you atrocities an organization that declares its unequivocal results to advance its genocidal plants. that is, and i'm considerable request and it is respectfully submitted that it cannot stand said the code is informed of the events of october 7th,

because if there are any provisional messages that should appropriately be indicated here, they are indeed with respect to south africa. it is a matter of public record that south africa enjoys close relations with commerce. despite its former recognition as a terrorist organization by numerous states across the world. these relations have continued unabated, even after the october 7th atrocities. south africa has long hosted and celebrated its ties. we've come, i speak, it's including a senior, how much delegation that incredibly visited the country for a quote, solidarity gathering. just weeks after the mexican in justifying instituting proceedings. south africa makes much of its obligations under the genocide convention. it seems fitting then that'd be instructed to comply with those

obligations itself to end its own language of the legitimate ization of israel's existence. endive support for how much and use its influence with this organization . so that come off permanently ends its campaign of genocidal tara, and release as the hostages. madam president, members of the court for hostilities between israel and from us have exacted a terrible toll on both these rallies and palestinians. but any genuine efforts to understand the cause of this whole must take account of the horrendous reality created by come us within the gaza strip. when israel withdrew all its soldiers and civilians from gaza in 2005, it left the coastal area with a potential to become a political and economic success story to some of those violent takeover in

2007 changed all that over the past 16 years of its rule must have smuggled countless weapons into gods and his diverted billions and international aid. not to build schools, hospitals, or shelters to protect its population. from the dangers of via text it launched against israel as are many years. but rob, it's your turn massive slides of the civilian infrastructure into perhaps the most sophisticated terror stronghold in the history of urban warfare. remarkably counsel for the applicant described the suffering and does as unparalleled and unprecedented as if they are unaware of the opposite devastation wrought in wars that have raged just in recent years around the world. sadly, the civilian suffering and welfare is not unique to god. what is actually

unparalleled and unprecedented is the degree to which from us has entrenched itself within the civilian population and made palestinian civilian suffering and integral part of its strategy. how must have systematically and unlawfully embedded its military operations, militants and assets throughout kaiser. within and beneath densely populated civilian areas, it has built an extensive walling of underground tunnels, for which leaders and fighters severed several 100 miles in length. throughout the street with thousands of access points and terrace tubs, located in homes, most un facilities, schools, and perhaps most shockingly hospitals. this is not an occasional tactic, as it is an integrated pre planned, extensive abhorrence method of wolfing. purposely and methodically motoring

civilians firing rockets indiscriminately, systematically using civilians, sensitive sides and civilian objects as shields stealing and hoarding, humanitarian supplies, allowing those under its control to suffer so that it can fuel its fighters interest to campaign. the appalling suffering of civilians both is riley and palestinian is 1st and foremost the result of this despicable strategy. the horrible cost of come us, not only failing to protect its civilians, but actively sacrificing them for its own propaganda and military dentist. any from us abandons this strategy releases the hostages lays down its um, the whole studies and suffering within. madam president, members of the court,

there are many distortions in the opposite them submission to the court. but i shall be demonstrated by counsel. there is one that overshadows them all in the applicants telling. it is almost as if there is no intensive conflict taking place between 2 parties at all. no grave threat to israel and its citizens only. and these riley assault on gaza. the court is told of widespread damage to buildings, but it is not told, for example, how many thousands of those buildings were destroyed because they were booby trapped to buy from us. how many became legitimate targets because of the strategy of using civilian objects? unprotected sites for military purposes, of how many buildings, what struck but of a 2000 to can discriminate terrace rockets that misfired and landed in gaza itself

. the court is told of the $23000.00 casualties. as the applicant repeats, as many have and verified statistics provided by some us itself, hardly a reliable source. every civilian casualty in this conflict is like human tragedy. that demands our compassion. but the court is not told how many thousands of casualties are in fact the militants. how many were killed by how much fire? how many was civilians taking direct cod in hostilities? and just how many of the result of legitimate and proportionate use of force against military targets even is tragic. and the court is also told of the di, humanitarian situation in gaza. but it is not told of how much is practice of

stealing and holding aid. it is not told of the extensive is really efforts to mitigate civilian home of the humanitarian initiatives being undertaken to enable the flow of supplies and provide medical attention to the wounded. the applicant purports to describe the reality in gaza. but it is as if come us and it's total contempt for civilian life. just do not exist as a direct cause of that reality. how much is widely estimated to have the 30000 fighters and is known to bring? mine is no older than 15 or 16 into its ranks. they are coming for us. but in south africa is telling they have all but disappeared. there are no explosives in mosques and schools, and children's bedrooms. no ambulances used to transport fighters, no tunnels and terrace tub is under sensitive sides. no fights is dressed,

the civilians know kevin coming deering of a trucks. no firing from civilian homes, you and facilities, and even safe thoughts. there is only israel acting in gods. the applicant is essentially asking the court to substitute the lens of conflict between a state and a lawless terraced organization. with the lens of a so called genocide of a state against a civilian population. but it is not offering the court a lens. it is offering it a blindfold. madame president, members of the court. the nightmarish environment created by some us has been concealed by the applicant. but it is the environment in which israel is compelled to operate. israel is committed, as it must be, to comply with the law. but it does so in the face of commerce as add to contempt

for the lo it is committed, as it must be to demonstrate humanity. but it does so in the face of commerce is also in humanity. as will be presented by counsel. these commitments are a matter of express government policy, military directives and procedures. they are also an expression of israel's core values. and as shall also be shown, they are matched by genuine measures on the ground to mitigate civilian home under the unprecedented and excruciating conditions of warfare created by some us. it is plainly inconceivable under the term set by this very cold that a state conducting its. busy in this way, in these circumstances may be said.