South Africa files suit with ICJ, demands order for Israel to allow aid into Gaza

South Africa has filed an urgent application with the UN’s International Court of Justice, ICJ, to order Israel to allow more humanitarian aid into the devastated Gaza Strip.

South Africa said it went back to the ICJ to request the emergency measure in light of the “widespread starvation” in the Palestinian territory, according to statement from the court in The Hague.

In the statement, South Africa accused Israel of “continuing egregious breaches of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.”

South Africa lamented that at least,  15 children died of starvation a week ago.

In December 2023, South Africa took Israel to the International Court of Justice, accusing it of violating the Genocide Convention during ongoing Gaza war.

In an interim ruling, the UN court ordered Israel to take protective measures to prevent genocide.

In response to increasingly harsh criticism from other countries due to the catastrophic supply situation in the Gaza Strip, Israel on Wednesday,  asserted that more aid was arriving in the coastal strip than before the war began.

Israeli government spokesman,  Eylon Levy said in a post on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, that “more food trucks are entering Gaza every day than before Hamas started this war.”

An infographic in his post said that in the past two weeks, an average of 102 food shipments arrived in the Gaza Strip every day.
That compared to 70 trucks per day before Oct. 7, according to the post.

Levy said there were many false report circulating that Israel was restricting the amount of aid deliveries.

“There are no limits on the amount of humanitarian aid that can enter the Gaza Strip,” Levy said in a video posted on X.
“I repeat: none,” he said.
dpa/NAN

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