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The hearings on May 16th and 17th will focus on a request from South Africa for the court to order emergency measures against Israel regarding its bombardment of the Palestinian city of Rafah.
Netanyahu, declared on Saturday, "We decide and act according to what is required for our security." This statement comes in the wake of the ICJ's decision, which, while not ordering an immediate ceasefire, criticized Israel's conduct during the nearly four-month war against Hamas in Gaza.
International Court has stated that Israel bears the responsibility to prevent genocide in Gaza.
The decision comes amid Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim's call for a review of the 2018 decision by Malaysia to drop its application to revise an International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling that affirmed Singapore's sovereignty over Pedra Branca, one of the contested islets.
The Israel-Gaza conflict has reached a point where the toll it is taking on civilians and their basic rights. Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, on his visit to the Gaza Strip, said, “The massive death, destruction, displacement, hunger, loss, and grief of the last 100 days are staining our shared humanity.”
The allegations made by South Africa claim that Israel is not fulfilling its obligations under the treaty, which was created in response to the Holocaust. The treaty criminalizes any attempts to destroy a population, either in part or in whole.
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