Israel to ICJ: 50 Tunnels Between Rafah and Egypt – Hostages Being Held There

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On Friday, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) continued it’s hearing with Israel’s counter-arguments detailing why the State of Israel is not, guilty of genocide, as South Africa has claimed.

South Africa is demanding that the ICJ order a ceasefire in Gaza.

Tamar Kaplan-Tourgeman, a member of Israel’s legal team, stated that “Israel takes extraordinary measures in order to minimize the harm to civilians in Gaza.”

The Deputy Attorney General (International Law) at the Justice Ministry, Dr. Gilad Noam, opened by stating that the claims made by South Africa are completely unconnected from the reality of what is happening on the ground.

Dr. Noam noted that Hamas is not a party to the 1948 Genocide Convention. Therefore an order for Israel to end its war against Hamas would enable Hamas to continue attacking Israel.

Dr. Noam went on to say that South Africa’s case against Israel “makes a mockery of the heinous charge of genocide” and is “an obscene exploitation of the most sacred convention.”

“There is a tragic war going on, but there is no genocide,” he emphasized.

Dr. Noam continued: “South Africa warns this court that, I quote, ‘if Rafah falls, so too does Gaza’. Once again however, the reality is exactly the opposite. Only by bringing down Hamas’s military stronghold in Rafah will Palestinians be liberated from the clenched grip of the murderous terrorist regime and the road to peace and prosperity may finally be paved.”

Dr. Noam pointed out to the ICJ that days before South Africa submitted its latest request to the ICJ, it hosted a Hamas delegation: “They did not use the meeting to urge Hamas to release the hostages, to stop targeting Israeli civilians, to cease using human shields, to cease operating from within and nearby hospitals, UN facilities, and other protected sites,” he said.

Instead, South Africa turned once again to the ICJ “in order to obtain military advantage for its ally Hamas, which it does not wish to see defeated.”

Dr. Noam said that Hamas has an advanced tunnel system in Rafah, including about 50 tunnels which cross from Rafah into Egypt. “Israeli hostages are being held there,” he stressed.

{Matzav.com}

3 COMMENTS

  1. That last paragraph is exactly why the Egyptians and the USA are going super ape over EY going into Rafa.

  2. Didn’t we tell you all along that the hostages are held as collateral, a pretext for the “war”, and will be released after the tunnels all over Israel are cleaned up – the sole purpose of the Simchas Torah attack? It has nothing to do with Hamas or Fatah and everything to do with the tunnels, like other countries.

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