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President Syril Rama Posa of South Africa
has said that the Friday judgment by the

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International Court of Justice I see issued
that the International Court is aware of the

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art of human tragedy allegedly committed by
Israel in the Northern Gaza Strip of Palestine.

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President Syrian Rama Posa started is on
Friday while reacting to the judgment of

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the International Court of Justice in the
nationwide broadcast. According to President Syril Rama

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Posa, the judgment exposed Israel crimes
against Palestinians. The full feature of the

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president nationwide broadcast is presented the baton
below as made available by the office of

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his South Africa President. Addressed by
the President of the Republic of South Africa

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is Excellent Syria Ima pH osf on
the ruling of the International Court of Justice.

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Fellow South Africans eliot. Today the
International Court of Justice in the head

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issue a ruling that is a victory
for international law, for human rights and

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above all for justice. This follows
the unprecedented action teching by South Africa to

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take another country to the International Court
of Justice. On the twenty ninth of

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December twenty twenty three, South Africa
filed an application instituting proceedings against the States

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of Israel for the violence it has
unleashed on the people of the Gaza Strip,

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arguing that Israel was in breach of
its obligations under the Convention. South

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Africa had earlier condemned the seventh of
October twenty twenty three, attacked by Hamas

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and other groups that resulted in the
deaths of many Israelis and the teching of

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hostages. The Court, in its
judgment affirmed South Africa’s rights to take Israel

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to court even though it is not
a party to the conflict in Gaza.

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The ic CHEF, as the principal
judicial organ of the United Nations, has

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handed down a ruling that the State
of Israel should immediately implement a set of

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provisional mergers to prevent any further acts
of genocide in Gaza, so disease from

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such acts, and to take effective
mergers to prevent the destruction, and then

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showed the preservation of evidence relating to
acts of genocide. As the South African

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government, we welcome the decision of
the icy Jaer were not the court statement

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that it is acutely aware of the
extent of the human tragedy that is unfolding

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in the region and is deeply concerned
about the continuing laws of life and human

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suffering, and that the catastrophic humanitarian
situation in the Gaza strip is at serials

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risks of deteriorating further before the Court
renders its final judgments. We welcome the

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mergers that the Court ordered by majority
decision ruling that Israel military should not commit

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acts of genocide against Palestinians. Israels
should take all mergers to prevent and punish

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incitement to genocide. Furthermore, take
immediate and effective mergers to allow basics services

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and humanitarian assistance to gather. And
it should preserve evidence of what is happening

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in Gaza, including submitting a report
within a month on all mergers taken to

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give effects to the icy Ja Order
within one month. Saga is binding on

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Israel and must be respected by all
states that are passed through the Convention on

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the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime
of Genocide. We expect Israel, as

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a self proclaimed democracy and estates that
respects the rule of not to abide by

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the measors handed down by the International
Court of Justice. After more than half

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a century of occupation, dispossession,
oppression and apatheid. The Palestinian people’s christ

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for justice have been heeded by an
eminent organ of the United Nations. Today

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Israel stands before the international community,
its crimes against the Palestinians led bare.

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Since October last year, the people
of Gaza have been the victims of bombardment

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and strikes from land and their homes. Refugee camps and entire neighborhoods have been

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destroyed, and not even schools and
hospitals have been spared. The people of

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Gaza have been deprived of electricity,
fuel, food and medical supplies. According

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to the United Nations, more than
twenty five thousand people have been killed during

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Israel’s war with amas Amound. The
dead are relief workers, UN staff and

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journalists. More than sixteen thousands of
the dead are women and children. In

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October twenty twenty three, the UN
Children’s Fund said Gaza has become a graveyard

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four thousands of children. According to
the UN, thousands of children we were

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killed in just the first three weeks
of the current conflict. As South Africa

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argued in its application to the ic
J, the high civilian death toll and

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the share scale of the destruction that
has resulted from Israel’s response to the seventh

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of October attacks is vastly disproportionate to
any claim by Israel that it has been

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acting in self defense. We have
called Israel’s attacks on Gaza genocidal, asks

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for which Israel should and must be
held accountable. Today, the International Court

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of Justice has been dicated us.
The Court has concluded that pursuance to Article

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nine of the Convention, it has
jurisdiction to ad judicate our application. The

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effect of the order that the icager
has granted today is that there is a

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plausible case of genocide. This marks
an important first step in our quest to

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secure justice for the people of Gaza. Some have told us to mind our

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own business. Others have said it
was not our class, and yet it

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is very much our class as people
who know too well depend on dispossession,

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discrimination, stet sponsored violence. We
are also a people who were the victims

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of the crime of Apatheid. We
know what Apatheid looked like, we experienced

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and lived through it. Sadly,
many of people who died and were exiled,

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like our beloved leader Oliver Tambull and
others. Others were jailed like the

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father of our democracy, and others
were membed. We as South Africans,

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will not be passive by standards and
wor to crimes that were visited upon us

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being perpetrated elsewhere. We stand on
the side of freedom for all. We

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stand on the side of justice.
Thirty years following our first democratic elections,

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President Nelson Mandela declared, let there
be justice for all, Yet there be

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peace for all. Never, never, and never against Charlotte, be that

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this beautiful land will again experience the
oppression of one by another. And so

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we say again today, never,
never, and never against Charlotte, be

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that acts of genocide are perpetrated with
impunity. As with the international community,

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you come. We firmly believe that
following this judgment, there should now be

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a more concerted effort towards a ceasefire
and negotiations should commence on a permanent to

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state solution to enable Israel and Palestine
to leave side by side as independent states

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as South Africa with them all in
the international community who have supported our application,

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including a number of countries who have
declared their intention to be part of

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our application. We will not,
however, in our commitment to the Palestinian

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people and their quest for self determination. Our own plentful history obligion us to

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do no less. We thank the
International Court of Justice for upholding its role

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of achieving justice, promoting peace,
preventing genocide, and holding those guilty of

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genocide accountable. It is our ns
hope and wish that this court or that

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place the way for an and to
this crisis, for an and to the

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terrible loss of life and hardship,
and for the crucial fast steps to be

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taken towards reconciliation and as blasting peace. I thank you