South Africa Appeals To UN-Run ‘World Court’ to Block Israel’s Military Operation Against Hamas Terrorists in Rafah
Capturing the terrorist stronghold of Rafah is central to Israel’s twin objective of freeing the hostages and eliminating Hamas’s Gaza-based terrorist leadership.
South Africa on Tuesday appealed to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to block the Israeli military operations against the last remaining major Hamas stronghold of Rafah. The government of South Africa “appeals to the International Court of Justice, requesting that the court consider ordering Israel to refrain from attacking the Gazan city of Rafah,” The Times of Israel reported.
The African nation has filed the “urgent request” with The Hague-based United Nations court at a time when the IDF is gearing up to storm the terrorist bastion of Rafah, the southernmost part of Gaza, on the Egyptian border. Capturing Rafah is central to Israel’s twin objective of freeing the hostages and eliminating Hamas’s Gaza-based terrorist leadership.
“The IDF is preparing to stage an operation in Rafah to attack four largely intact Hamas battalions situated in the city. Israel believes senior Hamas leaders are also present in Rafah or below it the Hamas tunnel system, along with some of the Israeli hostages the terror group is holding captive,” the news website noted. The capture of the terrorist stronghold of Rafah will also close Hamas’s sole weapons supply and escape route.
South Africa, a country whose prominent politicians openly call for the genocide of minority White farmers, has joined the Arab states, such as Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Jordan, in preventing Israel from flushing Hamas out of Gaza and bringing its hostages home.
The Associated Press reported South Africa’s move at the UN court:
South Africa’s government said Tuesday it had lodged an “urgent request” with the U.N.’s International Court of Justice to consider whether Israel’s military operations targeting the southern Gaza city of Rafah are a breach of provisional orders the court handed down last month in a case alleging genocide.
South Africa has asked the court to weigh whether Israel’s intention to launch a ground offensive in Rafah — where 1.4 million Palestinians have fled in an attempt to escape fighting — represents a “further imminent breach of the rights of Palestinians in Gaza.” (…)
South Africa alleges Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people in its war against the Hamas militant group in the Gaza Strip and lodged a case with the world court. The court handed down a preliminary ruling last month.
Among its six orders, it said Israel must do all it can to prevent the deaths of Palestinians and the destruction of Gaza. South Africa had asked the court to order a cease-fire by Israel, but the justices stopped short of that.
South Africa is now asking the court to consider further provisional measures against Israel, said Tuesday’s statement released by the office of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.
“The South African government said it was gravely concerned that the unprecedented military offensive against Rafah, as announced by the State of Israel, has already led to and will result in further large scale killing, harm and destruction,” the statement said “This would be in serious and irreparable breach both of the Genocide Convention and of the Court’s Order of 26 January 2024.”
In January, South Africa took Israel to the top UN court, accusing it of ‘genocide’ over the ongoing IDF operation against Hamas in Gaza launched after the mass killings and hostage-taking on innocent Israeli civilians on October 7. In late January, the court issued a preliminary ruling asking Israel to do everything possible to prevent civilian casualties in Gaza, something the IDF already painstakingly adheres to — even at the cost of giving up the element of surprise and tactical advantage during counter-terrorism operations.
A further ICJ ruling at South Africa’s behest is unlikely to halt the Gaza counter-terrorism offensive entering into its crucial phase. Neither Israel nor the United States recognize the jurisdiction of the UN-run court.
IDF moves deep into Khan Yunis, eliminates more terrorists
Undeterred by foreign pressure, the Israeli military continues to degrade Hamas’s jihadist fighting force and destroy its terrorist infrastructure, including a vast web of terror tunnels across Gaza.
After weeks of heavy fighting, the IDF has successfully taken ‘operational control’ over parts of Khan Yunis, the Hamas stronghold in the south of Gaza. “IDF troops continued operational activities in western Khan Yunis. The troops killed over 30 terrorists and strengthened operational control of the area with targeted raids on terrorist infrastructure, sniper ambushes and patrols,” the military disclosed in a press release on Tuesday.
The IDF is determined to reach all objectives of the Gaza offensive launched in the wake of the October 7 massacre, IDF Chief of Staff General Herzi Halevi assured Tuesday. “We need to eliminate the senior leadership, eliminate more of the enemy’s commanders and operatives, return civilians to their homes safely, and bring the hostages home – a supreme mission and moral obligation,” Lt. General Halevi declared.
Over the past 24hrs in Gaza, IDF troops:
🔺Identified a terrorist cell entering a compound, where they loaded an anti-tank missile to be fired at IDF troops. In response, a fighter jet targeted and neutralized the terrorists.
🔺Neutralized 2 terrorists who attempted to move… pic.twitter.com/2wvG7rWGBo
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) February 13, 2024
Hamas captors ‘caught off guard’: New details of IDF’s daring hostage rescue mission
The IDF has released video footage and news details surrounding the daring rescue of two Israeli hostages from Hamas-controlled Rafah. The terrorist captors were ‘caught off guard’ and were eliminated before they could react to the approaching Israeli commandos, Israeli news reports suggest.
In a night-time operation on Monday morning, the IDF and Israeli security forces jointly rescued 60-year-old Fernando Simon Marman and 70-year-old Louis Har, kidnapped by Hamas terrorists on October 7th from Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak in southern Israel.
Police release dramatic footage from the hostage rescue operation in southern Gaza's Rafah early Monday morning.
The headcam video shows officers of the elite Yamam counterterrorism unit breaching into the building where Fernando Marman and Louis Har were being held.
The… pic.twitter.com/VSzK6HxFbD
— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) February 13, 2024
The Israeli news website YNET reported the latest revelations:
New details on the successful rescue of Israeli hostages Fernando Simon Marman and Louis Har from the Gaza Strip overnight Monday highlight the security forces’ meticulous planning and the high level of certainty required before the order to go in was given.
In fact, earlier plans to extract the two men were not executed because the conditions were not right.
During the overnight operation, police counterterrorism units and Shin Bet operatives caught the terrorists off guard in the house where the hostages were being held and eliminated them within seconds. As soon as the troops’ presence was detected, they came under fire from nearby buildings and many more terrorists were killed in the ensuing firefight.
A key aspect of such operations is not just breaching the building and rescuing the hostages but also ensuring a safe retreat back across the border to Israel. To that end, an order was given to direct heavy bombardments of Hamas military sites, command centers and police facilities. The terrorists tried to regroup and call for backup but were unsuccessful. A vehicle used by the terrorists to pursue the forces was attacked from the air.
The entire operation lasted an hour and a half on the ground, beginning when the forces came under gunfire and concluding with the hostages being transported to Sheba Medical Center in central Israel. During that time, the security services and the IDF demonstrated their distinctive capabilities, which included accurate intelligence, special forces and significant firepower, secured by tanks and helicopters to safely extract the forces from the area.
The operation was led by IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi from the war room in Southern Command and Shin Bet Director Ronen Bar from the command and control center at Shin Bet headquarters. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant later joined them.
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The US and the UN should cut off all funds and supplies to Hamas, and demand the return of the hostages.
We know the UN won’t, so the US should cut off all funds to the UN
These NGOs are like Universities: “Here’s your bill for what we think you should be paying for.”
It’s like we think we give them $ to distribute on our behalf, in our interest, not on someone else’s behest, in their interest. Who do we think we are, tech billionaire$?
The latest, farcical “border security” bill before the Senate contains $10 billion in “humanitarian aid” to Gaza. We’re still funding these genocidal Muslim supremacists, terrorists and Islamofascists, who have broad support among the Gazan population. Still rewarding their jihadist Jew-hate, belligerence and zealotry.
It is simply crazy to give any $$$ to GAZA because:
Gaza pays $$$ to “martyrs’ families.”
It makes no sense to fund both sides of a war.
It makes no sense unless your name is Rothschild
Gaza is a place, not a government. No US funds are being given to Hamas. The humanitarian aid is supposed to be distributed to the people there, not by Hamas but by international organizations that, so far at least, are not known to support or collaborate with terrorists. The problem is that Hamas is stealing a large proportion of the aid from its legitimate recipients, so it’s indirectly going to them.
And no, “Gaza” doesn’t pay $$$ to “martyrs’ families”. The PA does, but the PA hasn’t had any presence in the Gaza Strip for nearly the past 20 years.
Incorrect. We know Hamas is obtaining these funds and usng them for God knows what. That is a fact and it has been documented. What we are doing is stupid and counterproductive.
Virginia, not only is that not true, you are also moving the goalposts.
First of all, we do not know that Hamas is obtaining any of the US funds. That is not documented and is not a known fact.
Second, even if it were that would not justify your claim that the USA is giving Hamas money. It is definitely not doing that. It is providing aid in the knowledge that a lot of it will end up stolen by Hamas, which is not the same thing at all.
Finally, your claim that “Gaza pays $$$ to martyrs’ families.” is simply false. You are thinking of the PA, which hasn’t had any control over the Gaza Strip in nearly 20 years.
When the US has to borrow money and go into debt it is beyond crazy to give money to anyone for ‘humanitarian or any aid’. Why can’t the government have as much care for its own citizens as it does for those of other countries? Perhaps in the overall totality of trillions this amount is a pittance but pittances add up. Someone somehow has got to put a halt to this draining of America. Someone has got to say: we’ve given this much and there will be no more. America is not responsible for maintaining and/or supporting the welfare of any other country.
The USA wasted trillion on welfare and other help for poor people in the USA. What we give to the UN is a tiny percentage of that. The real problem is the UN gives money to Hamas so they can use it to kill Jews. The solution is to provide food aid directly to the people living in Gaza without UN involvement.
Perhaps SA should encourage Egypt, Morocco, Libya, Eritea and Sudan to accept the Gazans and tear down the wall erected to keep them out of their land, or at least allow safe passage out of Gaza and straight to SA.
Indeed. Hamas would soon have their own state in the country formerly known as South Africa. It could be named Zimbabwe Redux.
Idi Amin and “Baby Doc” would accept them while licking their lips.
Fuck off South Africa.
Although perhaps they could also ask them to stop Russia in the Ukraine while they are at it 😂😂
How many divisions does the UN have?
Kangaroo International Court of Justice (ICJ) ?
Why does everyone bag out Kangaroos for their legal proceedings? I’ve never heard of a Kangaroo providing an unfair judgement against anyone!
As an Aussie I’m deeply offended by this ongoing slander of one of our national animals!
At last, I’ve found an area where I can be offended; I was feeling left out!
Oh really!?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WGo4li2K0o
So, how would you say, “FOAD South Africa, UN, and ICJ” in Hebrew?
דרום אפריקה, האו״ם, ובית הדין הבין-לאומי, שתלכו כולכם לעזעזל
Oops, I misspelled that. It should be לעזאזל
If Israel doesn’t use that in their reply, I’m going to make it my amicus brief.
When we hear the word “necklacing” in regard to the wife of a country’s president, images of bejeweled swan like necks at state dinners are conjured up. For the wife of South Africa’s first black president we are treated to images of car tires, drenched in gasoline, set on fire around the necks of her disfavored ones. Yes, noble South Africa.
If South Africa isn’t also filing charges to:
#1 – Free all hostages immediately, without conditions
#2 – Find Hamas guilty of war crimes for deliberate and systematic use of human shields
then I take their filings to the ICC as pro-Palestinian propaganda and not a quest for peace or justice.
Wow. They sure have come a long way since de Klerk. In the wrong direction.
It amazes me just how openly all of these countries will support terrorist organizations these days
Those countries should not receive any further American aid.
Those countries should not receive any further XXXXXXXX aid.
It makes perfect sense that the despicable South African government, which seeks to commit genocide against its non-black citizens, would align itself with the goose-stepping, Arab Muslim terrorists and Islamofascists of Hamas, who seek to commit genocide against Jews.
I think that America should allow south African whites to come here, and that we should expel 100 illegals for each white admitted, that being a bonus.
Do the South African genocidal reprobates know that Israel wisely didn’t sign the treaty that would have committed it to rule by The Hague-based, anti-Semitic busybodies?
Incorrect. Israel signed the Genocide Treaty in 1950, thus accepting the ICJ’s jurisdiction to decide claims made under that treaty.
Perhaps you’re thinking of the so-called “International Criminal Court”, which claims jurisdiction not over countries but over individuals. Israel has wisely refused to sign that one.
South Africa is blacks, and to blacks Jews are whites and so are oppressors in any conflict.
There are black Jews in Israel and it appears that they dot suffer from the kind of culture we see in America.
Our progressive fascists see Hamas as POC being oppressed by White Israel. They think that anything the oppressed POC do is justified even if it’s the same as Hitler’s final solution for Jews. If Germans were POC they would have supported Germany during WW2 even knowing about their extermination of Jews..
Maybe South Africa should concentrate on genocidal politicians at home.
Julius Malema has a shot at winning election to lead S.A. at the next election. Here he is giving a speech calling on his followers to accept the need to kill to create the revolution.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI-ILQW1znM
https://apnews.com/article/south-africa-election-opposition-eff-malema-ef4d87176b5b53e5768eac02fc9b0129
Link noted in the article above:
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/08/kill-the-boer-south-african-politician-threatens-white-farmers-with-violence-nyt-plays-apologist/
If you are not black, or are one of the black tribal minorities in South Africa; the time is ten times overpast to get out of the country by any means necessary. Darwin always wins.
Subotai Bahadur
UN: *Orders Israel to stop*
Israel: Ha ha ha ha ha ha. No.
South Africa doesn’t have standing.
/Hawaiian UN Judge
Aloha!
Well, I for one ain’t gonna play Sun City.
Nice!
More meaningless publicity stunting.
This is a declared war by both parties. The “International Court of Justice” has absolutely zero authority to force Israel to stop prosecuting the war.
On the other hand, they do have authority to rule on the genocide being committed against the white farmers in South Africa. Perhaps they should focus on that since it has been going on for years now?
Under the terms of the Genocide Treaty, war is not an excuse for genocide. So South Africa’s theory is that the court should find that there is a plausible claim that the way the IDF is conducting the war falls within the treaty’s definition of genocide, and therefore it should enjoin the IDF from continuing the war until it decides whether the claim is correct. The court declined the invitation to do so, merely instructing the IDF to take care not to commit genocide, which is easy because it’s not doing so anyway.
Now South Africa is trying again, claiming that the coming attack on Rafah is likely to constitute genocide, so the court should enjoin it. If the court still thinks the way it did a week or so ago, it should once again decline the request. Alternatively, if it does issue the injunction, Israel is likely to refuse to comply. It certainly should. That would have serious negative consequences for Israel, but also for the court’s veneer of legitimacy.
If there were any genocide, that is. So far, it’s the Arabs who are doing it.
Of course. But that is not at issue at the moment. The only issue the court has considered, and is being asked to consider again, is whether South Africa has made a plausible claim that Israel is committing genocide. That is all.
I see your point, but you are leaving out one important point which is that the ICJ doesn’t have the authority to enjoin anyone.
The ICJ adjudicates international legal issues and the UN Charter authorizes the UN Security Council to enforce ICJ findings/rulings. However, such enforcement is subject to the veto power of the five permanent members of the council.
IMO 3 out of 5 permanent members (US, UK, and France) are unlikely to approve such action against Israel. But it only takes one to veto.
It’s a publicity stunt.
The ICJ has the authority to enjoin. It doesn’t have an army at its disposal to enforce its injunctions. But its injunctions are legally binding on the parties, so if it orders Israel to stop fighting until the case is resolved, and Israel defies the injunction, as it must, then it will become an “outlaw”. That leads to several consequences, almost all of them undesirable.
No, the Security Council will not raise an army to enforce the injunction. That’s not going to happen, much as Samantha Power might wish it. But the USA would demand a heavy price from Israel for its veto. Israel might go looking to the UK for a veto instead, but that would come with a price too, and might not even be available. In addition, many European countries would use it as an excuse to impose harmful sanctions on Israel.
And there’s a remote possibility that the Israeli judicial branch, power-drunk as it is, might order the IDF to obey the injunction in defiance of the “illegal” orders it would be receiving from the elected government. A large segment of IDF officers are likely to obey such an order, effectively mutinying against the government and dealing a serious blow to its ability to fight. On the other hand, that might be a good thing in the long run, since it would finally force the government to put the judicial coup down, something it has been afraid to do for 30 years.
Tucker has made it clear this is what he wishes for most, and that America is pure evil for not joining SA in backing Hamas.
That he backs that Harvard faculty in this should be good reason to shun Tucker (by the way Moscow is more parasitic than Washington D.C., go to any neglected Siberian town and ask them how much they love the fact that Russia parasitizes their tax dollars on behalf of making Moscow prosperous).
South Africa is actively engaged in the genocidal extermination of all white people in their country.
U.N. supports this, so does the US and the EU.
If you know anything about the degeneration of the current South African govt after the ending of apartheid then you would know that they are all corrupt and thus for sale at a fairly low price.
That’s not the story you will hear attached to the Mandela legacy but it’s the truth. They are grifters that can’t keep their own country infrastructure afloat because they can’t stop siphoning off chunks of govt money that is earmarked for roads, electrical power, law enforcement, etc.
Weird how none of these calls for cease fire and etc. never include permanently stopping the rockets and bombings into Israel.
In the end, it seems like quite a few folks have concluded: “There’s be no attacks on Israel, if there were no more Israel.” Some say it out loud. Most don’t.
If they wanna help, maybe put a bit more energy into finding some solution that stops the rockets n bombings vs. petitions to the ICJ and other whining. But that would be hard, so…
Israel:
“Well, SA, allow us to retort. We’ll deal with Hamas as you say, if their rockets and bombs go to you, not us.”
“Since that’s not gonna happen, we’ll be flexible — we’ll share the rockets they send us with you, along with Saudi, Egypt, and Jordan. Deal?”
I’d very much like to see how South Africa proposes the U.N. should “block” Israel from a Hamas stronghold.
Send in easily-identifiable, highly-visible, and poorly-trained Blue Helmet “peacekeepers” to stand around whatever building doubles as Hamas’ local HQ?
Or do they just send a strongly-worded letter demanding that Israel leave them alone, pretty please with a cherry on top?
Israel has put up with Hamas’ belligerence and violence for years. The 10/7 attack was the last straw. The IDF has a clear mission and will not be stopped. South Africa and the U.N. may as well try to shout down a hurricane.
South Africa is proposing simply that the ICJ enjoin Israel from continuing its war in a way that plausibly fits the legal definition of genocide, until that claim can be considered and adjudicated. Of course that would be equivalent to an order to give up the war and allow Hamas to continue to exist and to continue its depredations. Israel can’t afford to obey such an order, so all it would achieve would be to make Israel an “international outlaw”, which would then be used to pressure countries currently supporting Israel to support Hamas instead.
It’s also conceivable that the Israeli judiciary would enforce such an injunction and order the army to obey it, if necessary by defying the elected government. If that were to happen it might finally force the government to put down the judiciary with extreme prejudice, something that should have been done 30 years ago. Ironically, Aharon Barack, who is the one person most responsible for the Israeli judiciary seizing power from the political branches, is now sitting on this ICJ panel, having been nominated by Israel. He should have been thrown in a cell 30 years ago.
The Communist Racists that took over South Africa have turned it into a garbage dump. They have joined such luminaries as Cuba, Angola and Zimbabwe as countries taken over then destroyed. No-one should listen to them and as for that World Court, don’t forget the Dems are all in on it. If they had their way America and it’s citizens would be subject to it. That way they could just throw up their hands and say they can’t do anything while getting what they want.
🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱 I stand with Israel! Am Yisrael Chai! 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱
If Muslims object to Israel existence because it was created thru war then they should return all the Muslim countries that were conquered by Islamic forces first. Most Muslim countries were stolen by Muslims by conquest.
They don’t object to its existence because it was created through war. They objected to its existence before the war, and started the war in order to prevent its creation.
There is some of that “anti-colonialism” malarkey at work. And, as always, the answer is “How far back do we insist on going?” Turkey and a chunk of the Middle East might be really unhappy with the results.
South Africa is to human Rights
what Obama is to the law profession
Huh? What does that even mean?
0bama practiced law for a few years, seems to have been OK at it but not particularly good, got his jobs mainly through his communist network, and eventually went into politics and had his license inactivated, as a lawyer does when he has no intention of practicing again for a long time, if ever.
Seems pretty apt, actually.
“South Africa was a semi-respectable company for a few years, seems to have been OK at parts of it, but over all not particularly good; got it’s…”
Ersatz version of the thing, credentialed, but in practice kind of embarrassing.
Should we to University Presidents or Journalists next?
Take you meds, you drooling airhead.
South Africa and China run the UN
The UN runs the DNC
The Squad runs the blmplo
The GOP???
they’re just running