luxury is out enough, we will not take it any more 3 years after protest as storm to the capital. the new rates for the white house begins in iowa as republican candidates, once again bethel trump, for the nomination, stay with elsa 0. so the us election 2020 for the will see read will say us and for strikes have killed 5 is this slice isn't question to the song. the bottom of this is i'll just a live from the. so coming up is one of the set of defend itself against accusations of genocide by south africa in an unprecedented case of the international court of justice will be live at the hate say the children says 100

palestinian children have been killed every day buys rarely strikes and causes since the will to get in the we begin and yeah, and then where the spokesman of the for the, um full so says us and brush of strikes of a nice of code at least 5 of the groups finances. they say the military action will not go without punishment. over tally ation, or multiple sites across the country will hit, including near the capital salma. it is the 1st time western countries have low strikes against the yvonne backs quote, since it started attacking ships and the red sea late last year. she have a time to see reports from washington dc. the binary ministration said that us and u. k. military's were involved in bombing radars, missiles i'm dreading size, the aims to the grey, the who's the,

the ability to conduct strikes on international shipping. and a statement joe biden said, today's defensive action follows an extensive diplomatic campaign. and who the rebels escalating attacks against commercial vessels? these targeted strikes are a clear message that the united states and our partners will not tolerate attacks on our personnel or allow hostile actors to imperil freedom of navigation. and one of the world's most critical commercial roots. us and british war plains had targets throughout the governments with the control move, including the capital summer, the key parts of the data and sidebar, and the north place of the border with saudi arabia. a senior us administration official emphasized that the us was not seeking to escalate the conflict. however, the who suggested that escalation was now inevitable let in the thought that they can show a law we will confront the american aggression. any american aggression will never remain without a response, and the response will not only be at the level of the recent operation that targeted americans, etc, with more than $24.00 drones and several massages the response will be greater than

that though, and more than that, the us officials, i have too early to know who the capabilities have been degraded, but beyond that, they're all questions as to what exactly the us feels it's achieving. especially since the who things have been clear, basically live is they who are acting on the international. lo, specifically of the international genocide convention, which obligates them to act, to stop the bombardment of goes up to the question that has to be asked is why is it that the british and american governments prefer to escalate and go to war? essentially, in order to prevent the hunters from attacking ships rather than actually going to the top of a ceasefire and gaza, which would not only be more effective, but also would have other positive effects such as ending this daughter. the bite to ministration insists it was extreme defensively. if there's an attack earlier this week for sports sometimes have because us vessels with targets it. however,

when aust how the administration was so sure that the us was specifically the progress of the attack, a senior defense official would only say that it was because us vessels were in the proximity of who would be far. she everytime see elder 0 washington. we're taking your life to the international court of justice and the hague, with as well as defending itself against accusations of genocide that's listed in the go. sure, raphael limited the site that kind of shows you tell them shows the world recognize he has the existing legal extreme facility. see fortunately, you know how to court issues because every feature that there was something else you feel that the bonds were all mixed unleashed. the applicant has now so to invoke this term in the context of israel's conduct in a war, it did not stop and did not want is a war in which israel is defending itself against come us palestinian islamic jihad

and other terrorist organizations. whose brutality knows no bounds. the civilian suffering in this war, like an old was, is tragic. it is heartbreaking. the harsh realities of the common 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 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 for many years this the but if there is a place where words should still matter where a truce should still matter, it is surely a court of law to 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 legitimizing israel. 75 year existence in its opening presentation yesterday. that broad commitment to humanity rang hollow and 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 dealers you the most ation of israel. since it's very establishment in 1940 eights gimme 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. gotcha. 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 does mold and tell the court a grossly distorted story. and it does move and empty the word of its unique force and special meaning it's of, it's 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 low or madam president, members of the court on saturday, october 7th, a jewish religious holiday. thousands of hamas and other militants breached is

rarely sovereign territory by sea land. and they're inviting over 20 is riley communities, bases and the size 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 elation, they tortured children in front of parents and parents in front of children. the 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 main

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 tonnage and sight isn't left behind. and the forensic evidence taken at the scene. we know it because the silence proudly filmed and broad cost, 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 its hard on 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 sweat that is rarely spacing. and the brutality and lawlessness of the false confronting in the volume of material submitted to members of the court. access has been provided to a portion of the rule for each, 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 see, month of a week farmer and his wife come a an activist for women's rights lived in keyboards, nero's when the rocket fire started, but he didn't the safe for him with a 4 year old son on there. and this 6 year old twins are built and shuffled during their rampage from us. milton set fire to their house. johnny, text of his sister renee the here. the burning us with suffocating the whole family was been alive to ashes, making dna identification especially difficult, a survivor of the nose or music festival massacre testified to police to witnessing of how much the military brutally raping

a young woman as another militant cut off her breast and toyed with a 2nd militant, then raped her again, shooting her in the head while still inside her in one video recorded by a home surveillance system. how much the miller can throws a grenade into a safer and 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 kill us. the militant casually opened the fridge, takes out a bottle and drinks and then there is this recall. busy from keyboards miss, i'll send you. c

the the, the, the as 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 1st. but if it has been ex, that may be characterized as genocide, or they may have been put perpetrated against israel. if there is a concern about the obligations of states and to the genocide convention, then it is in relation to their responsibilities to act against thomas's proudly

declared agenda of annihilation. which is not a secret and is not in doubts. the un i licensed language of commerce, this child is repeated regularly by its leaders, with a goal in the words of one member of how much this political bureau of the cleansing of palestine of the fills of the jews. it is expressed, nevertheless, chilling. like in the words of senior bus member ross, you come to lebanese television on october 24th 2023 who refers to the october 7th attacks. what must call. busy the lock for flood as follows. don't end up with them was you know that the cavities that i'm the city uh see us here. little bit. i will be with this them years. but the thing is that the, that the quote for no doesn't have the thing with the let me show the have to go

for the next hour on daniel dental. die in the continuation of this interview. come us as ask, come are these last does that means the annihilation of israel? yes, of course he says the existence of his ro is illogical. 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 in court 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. 11 of those, whether the applicant or grace 2nd,

as it is in response to the slaughter of october 7th, which from us opened 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 his route 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 from us and treats the hostages still held in captivity as bailey, an off the phone. but is there a reason these people on your screen on will be of protection? the

class is not a potty, today's proceedings. the applicant by its request, seats to fort israel's and 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 commit a it. 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 von love, quotes the source of the attack, whether

a state on the 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 fits 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 an unconscionable request and it is respectfully submitted that it cannot stand good. the court has 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 some us. despite its formal 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 us frigates 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. ended support for how much and use its influence with this organization . so that come off permanently ends. its campaign of genocide, altera, and release as the hostages. madam president, members of the court, the hostilities between israel and come 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 garza in 2005, it left the coastal area with a potential to become a political and economic success story. how much is violent takeover in 2007 changed all that? over the past 16 years of its rule, how my so smuggled countless weapons into guys 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 budgets and massive swaths of the civilian infrastructure into perhaps the most sophisticated terror stronghold in the history of the most remarkably counsel for the applicant describe the suffering and dogs are as unparalleled and

unprecedented as if they are unaware of the opposite devastation brought in was 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. an integral part of its strategy. how must have systematically 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 up several 100 miles in length. throughout the strip with thousands of access points and terrace tubs, located in homes,

most you and facilities schools, and perhaps most shockingly hospitals. this is not an occasional tactic. it is an integrated pre planned extensive apartments method of wolfing purposely and methodically made arrange 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 to the upholding suffering of civilians. both is riley and palestinian is 1st and foremost the result of this despicable strategy. the horrible cost of from us not only failing to protect it civilians,

but actively sacrificing them for its own propaganda and military benefit. any harm us abandons this strategy. releases the hostages lays down its um, the hostilities and suffering within. madam president, members of the court, there are many distortions in the applicants 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 his 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 by how much. how many became legitimate targets because of the strategy of using civilian objects and protected sides for military purposes? how many buildings, what struck part of a 2000 in disagreement at 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, and how many were killed by how much fire. how many were civilians taking direct cod in hostilities? and just how many of the result of legitimate and proportionate use of force

against military targets, even if tragic. and the court is also told of the di, humanitarian situation in gaza. but it is not told of how much practice of stealing and holding aid. it is not told of the extensive israeli efforts to mitigate civilian home of the humanitarian initiatives, bidding on to take him to enable the flow of supplies and provide medic. busy attention to the wounded, the applicant for parts 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 a 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 terrorist tub is under sensitive sides, notified to address the civilians. no coming coming during of a trucks most firing from civilian homes, you and facilities, and even safe thoughts. there is only israel acting in gaza. the applicant is essentially asking the court to substitute the lens of conflict between a state and a lawless terrorist organization. with the lens of a circle, genocide, of a state against a civilian population. but it is not offering the court a lens. it is offering it a blindfold. madam 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 is as a contempt for the law. it is committed, as it must be to demonstrate humanity. but it does so in the face of commerce as in humanity. as will be presented by counsel. these commitments are a matter of risk of express government policy, military directives and procedures. they are also an expression of israel's core values.