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====== Proceedings initiated by South Africa against Israel in International Court of Justice (ICJ), concerning the violations by Israel of its obligations under the Genocide Convention. (11-12 January 2024): A Brief Summary of Section III(C) ======

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is currently holding public hearings (Thursday, January 11th, and Friday, January 12th, 2024), in the proceedings initiated by South Africa against Israel concerning the violations by Israel of its obligations under the Genocide Convention.

Here is a brief summary of Section III(C). "Genocidal Acts Committed against the Palestinian People", taken from the proceedings ( Source: https://www.icj-cij.org/case/192 ).

Pictures taken from sources referenced by the proceedings' footnotes.
Read the full document here: https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20231228-app-01-00-en.pdf - (84 pages, including footnotes). For a brief history and context of Gaza and the West Bank, from 1948 to the present time, read Section III(B). Background (pp.12-28).

{{:gambar:peta-gaza.png?600|Hostilities in the Gaza Strip and Israel - reported impact | Day 82}} \\
( Picture source: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), 27 Dec 2023: "Hostilities in the Gaza Strip and Israel - reported impact | Day 82" - https://www.ochaopt.org/content/hostilities-gaza-strip-and-israel-reported-impact-day-82 )

===== Genocidal Acts Committed against the Palestinian People =====

==== (1) Killing Palestinians in Gaza, including a large proportion of women and children - estimated to account for around 70 per cent of the more than 21,110 fatalities - some of whom appear to have been summarily executed; (pp.31-35). ====

{{:gambar:icj-01.png?900|Hostilities in the Gaza Strip and Israel - reported impact | Day 82}} \\
( Picture source: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), 27 Dec 2023: "Hostilities in the Gaza Strip and Israel - reported impact | Day 82" - https://www.ochaopt.org/content/hostilities-gaza-strip-and-israel-reported-impact-day-82 )

==== (2) Causing serious mental and bodily harm to Palestinians in Gaza, including through maiming, psychological trauma, and inhuman and degrading treatment; (pp.35-37). ====

{{:gambar:icj-02.png?600|UPDATED: Injured patients ‘waiting to die’ in northern Gaza as last hospital shuts down, amid rising 'catastrophic' hunger levels}} \\
( Picture source: UN News, 21 December 2023: "UPDATED: Injured patients ‘waiting to die’ in northern Gaza as last hospital shuts down, amid rising 'catastrophic' hunger levels" - https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/12/1145017 )

==== (3) Causing the forced evacuation and displacement of around 85 per cent of Palestinians in Gaza — including children, the elderly and infirm, and the sick and wounded — as well as causing the large scale destruction of Palestinian homes, villages, refugee camps, towns and entire areas in Gaza, precluding the return of a significant proportion of the Palestinian people to their homes; (pp.37-39). ====

{{:gambar:icj-03.png?300|Hostilities in the Gaza Strip and Israel - reported impact | Day 82}} \\
( Picture source: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), 27 Dec 2023: "Hostilities in the Gaza Strip and Israel - reported impact | Day 82" - https://www.ochaopt.org/content/hostilities-gaza-strip-and-israel-reported-impact-day-82 )

==== (4) Causing widespread hunger, dehydration and starvation to besieged Palestinians in Gaza, through the impeding of sufficient humanitarian assistance, the cutting off of sufficient water, food, fuel and electricity, and the destruction of bakeries, mills, agricultural lands and other methods of production and sustenance; (pp.40-45). ====

{{:gambar:icj-04.png?900|Hostilities in the Gaza Strip and Israel - reported impact | Day 82}} \\
( Picture source: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), 27 Dec 2023: "Hostilities in the Gaza Strip and Israel - reported impact | Day 82" - https://www.ochaopt.org/content/hostilities-gaza-strip-and-israel-reported-impact-day-82 )

==== (5) Failing to provide and restricting the provision of adequate shelter, clothes, hygiene or sanitation to Palestinians in Gaza, including the 1.9 million internally displaced people, compelled by Israel’s actions to live in dangerous situations of squalor, alongside the routine targeting and destruction of places of shelter and the killing and wounding of those sheltering, including women, children, the disabled and the elderly; (pp.45-47). ====

{{:gambar:info56.png?900|UNRWA SITUATION REPORT #56 ON THE SITUATION IN THE GAZA STRIP AND THE WEST BANK, INCLUDING EAST JERUSALEM}} \\
( Picture source: The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), December 22, 2023: "UNRWA SITUATION REPORT #56 ON THE SITUATION IN THE GAZA STRIP AND THE WEST BANK, INCLUDING EAST JERUSALEM" -
https://www.unrwa.org/resources/reports/unrwa-situation-report-56-situation-gaza-strip-and-west-bank-including-east-Jerusalem )

==== (6) Failing to provide for or to ensure the provision for the medical needs of Palestinians in Gaza, including those medical needs created by other genocidal acts causing serious bodily harm, including through directly attacking Palestinian hospitals, ambulances and other healthcare facilities in Gaza, killing Palestinian doctors, medics and nurses, including the most qualified medics in Gaza, and destroying and disabling Gaza’s medical system; (pp.47-54). ====

{{:gambar:icj-06.png?600|Gaza: “It must all stop now.” Letter to UN Security Council}} \\
( Picture source: Dr Christos Christou, International President, Médecins Sans Frontières, 4 December 2023: "Gaza: “It must all stop now.” Letter to UN Security Council" - https://www.msf.org/letter-gaza-un-security-council )

==== (7) Destroying Palestinian life in Gaza, through the destruction of Gaza’s universities, schools, courts, public buildings, public records, stores, libraries, churches, mosques, roads, infrastructure, utilities and other facilities necessary to the sustained life of Palestinians in Gaza as a group, alongside the killing of entire family groups — erasing entire oral histories in Gaza — and the killing of prominent and distinguished members of society. (pp.54-57). ====

{{:gambar:icj-07.png?900|Before and after: satellite images of Gaza showing damage caused in hostilities}} \\
( Picture source: US Department of State, Humanitarian Information Unit / United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT) @ United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), 09 Nov 2023: "Before and after: satellite images of Gaza showing damage caused in hostilities" - https://www.ochaopt.org/content/and-after-satellite-images-gaza-showing-damage-caused-hostilities )

==== (8) Imposing measures intended to prevent Palestinian births in Gaza, through the reproductive violence inflicted on Palestinian women, newborn babies, infants, and children. (pp.57-59). ====

{{:gambar:icj-08.png?900|Facts and figures: Women and girls during the war in Gaza}} \\
( Picture source: UN Women, 22 DECEMBER 2023: "Facts and figures: Women and girls during the war in Gaza" - https://www.unwomen.org/en/news-stories/feature-story/2023/10/facts-and-figures-women-and-girls-during-the-war-in-gaza )