At The Hague this past week, lawyers for South Africa and Israel presented two starkly different versions of the ongoing conflict in Gaza.
On Thursday, South Africa’s application to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for urgent measures to stop Israel’s military operation in Gaza was underpinned by an accusation of genocide.
Israel’s forceful rebuttal on Friday is rooted in the belief it has a right to self-defence against an organization — Hamas — that it, in turn, describes as genocidal.
Left to sort through six powerful hours of argument is a panel of 17 judges who are no strangers to acrimonious legal
