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South Africa is taking Israel to the ICJ for the crime of genocide, but how has Gaza and it's Hamas led authority reacted? Right, so you can imagine it must come as some sense of relief that at last somebody is taking up the case of the Palestinian people against the Israeli genocide we’re all witnessing and I’ve gone into exactly what South Africa have done there in my other video earlier tonight, so go watch that after this, the case they’ve put together is incredibly detailed and as harrowing as you might imagine it is. But Gaza have issued a response to this, via their Hamas led government, which if such a statement elicits feelings of boo and hiss in you, then you’re missing the point of them being the elected government in Gaza, regardless of who deems them terrorists instead, you can define them by their actions but in doing so you also have to define them by the situation they exist under, but also realise they’re speaking on behalf of people most of whom, the vast majority of whom are not Hamas anyway and their message is not one of calling for more death and destruction, but one you ought to perhaps listen to, especially if you’re the sort of person who has been saying Gaza deserves what it gets. Right, so South Africa have submitted an 86 page case against Israel under the terms of the Genocide Convention to the International Court of Justice. They aren’t hanging about with it either, they have asked for the case to be expedited given the ongoing atrocities and have asked the Court to convene in the next few days to issue ‘provisional measures’ under the terms of the Convention calling for a ceasefire which would therefore be binding according to international law – seems obvious given a court will have issued such an order doesn’t it? Would Israel obey it? Probably not, they broke the week long ceasefire in November repeatedly, whereas Hamas obeyed it as they have on previous occasions, but in this case they’ve already accused South Africa of blood libel having brought this case against them. No contrition, no acknowledgement, just screaming victim as usual. If you aren’t familiar with the term blood libel it’s not just claiming antisemitism, it’s claiming that South Africa have accused them of killing Christians in order to drink their blood. It goes way past their usual level of jumping the shark in their accusations of anti Jewish racism, conflating their state with the Jewish faith as they do, falsely, nobody gets to play the religion card to excuse state sanctioned atrocity, it’s more jumping the shark, doing a 360 around the moon and coming back down to Earth again. Ultimately though, if such a ceasefire ruling were passed and Israel did as expected break it, then it can surely only result in international opinion swaying against them all the more? But nowhere was the news of this case being brought to the attention of the International Court of Justice more welcomed, than in Gaza itself, where the Hamas led government there have issued a statement saying: ‘In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. We highly appreciate South Africa's initiative to file a request in the International Court of Justice to commence investigations against the criminal “Israeli“ entity for committing the genocide against our Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. South Africa's move is an important step towards holding the leaders of the entity, the criminals of our age, accountable for the most heinous massacres known to humanity in our contemporary history. ***Subscribe to the channel here*** ►ABOUT ME: Hi, I'm Damien Willey. I'm a former welder, but now I'm a writer, blogger, vlogger and presenter and interviewer with Socialist Telly (Please do go and visit what we all get up to on ) I'm an unpaid carer for my disabled wife and daughter and as such we know all too well the difficulties that associated with that living in Tory Britain and I personally believe the answer lies in socialism. This channel, along with my other social media act as outlets to push back against that, to demand better of our politicians and leaders, to pull apart the media spin that supports them and the way the UK is run and to give a voice, loud as mine is, to the voiceless. ►CONTACT: Email: @ ►SUPPORT: If you appreciate the importance of alternative media in the UK and enjoy my work please consider financially supporting it. Various options to suit all budgets, please visit to find out more. Please support Independent Media. ►SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS Alternatively please share this video on your favourite social media & if you'd like to see what I get up to elsewhere, yoy can also find links to my presence elsewhere at Damo Rants Kernow Damo
