The filing, issued on Friday, asked the ICJ to issue an urgent order declaring that the regime was in breach of its obligations under the 1948 Genocide Convention over its brutal war on Gaza.
It also asked the court to issue short-term measures ordering the Zionist regime to stop its war on Gaza, which it said were “necessary in this case to protect against further, severe and irreparable harm to the rights of the Palestinian people.”
The Tel Aviv regime launched the bloody war on Gaza on October 7, after the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas carried out a surprise operation into the occupied territories of the regime’s intensified crimes against Palestinians.
“Israel, since 7 October 2023 in particular, has failed to prevent genocide and has failed to prosecute the direct and public incitement to genocide,” South Africa’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Friday.
South Africa has been a vocal critic of the Israeli war on Gaza. Last month, the country’s lawmakers voted in favor of closing down the Israeli embassy in Pretoria and suspending all diplomatic ties with the regime.
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