Israel wilfully breaching binding orders of ICJ, resolutions of UN Security Council, says SA

CAPE TOWN - South Africa has started delivering its arguments before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in a fresh application as part of its genocide case against Israel.
 
It's asking the court to stop the country from its ongoing onslaught on the southern Gaza city of Rafah. 
 
In opening remarks to the court on Thursday afternoon, South African ambassador to the Netherlands, Vusi Madonsela, said that government had been compelled to return to the world’s highest court because of the gravity of attacks, which have now left 35,000 Palestinians dead. 
 
He added that Israel continues to violate provisional measures ordered by the court in January and March. 
 
"Israel is escalating its attacks on Palestinians in Gaza, and in so doing is wilfully breaching the binding orders of this court. Israel similarly breaches the binding resolutions of the United Nations Security Council, erroneously believing from the lack of counter measures by the international community that it is exempt from having to respect international law."
 
Madonsela said that over the past seven months since Hamas’ attack on Israeli civilians, Palestinians have been facing a second Nakhba - a mass displacement and dispossession.
 
"It pretends the civilians it ruthlessly kills through its 2,000 pound bombs, through its targeted airstrikes, through its artificial intelligence systems, through its executions, are human shields. This whitewashing of Israel's genocide misses the key and fundamental element that of the massive and still mounting evidence of Israel's genocidal intent."