GAZA, (PIC)
The Hamas Movement has applauded South Africa for filing a lawsuit against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over its genocidal crimes in the Gaza Strip, saying it highly appreciates such a move.
“South Africa’s move is an important step to hold accountable the [Zionist] entity’s leaders — criminals of the era — who have committed the most horrific massacres ever known to humanity in our contemporary history,” Hamas said in a statement on Saturday.
The Movement urged other countries to file similar cases with competent national and international courts against “the Nazi entity”…“to ensure that it does not escape punishment for the brutal crimes it has committed against children and defenseless civilians in the Gaza Strip.”
South Africa filed on Friday a lawsuit against Israel at the International Court of Justice, accusing it of committing genocidal crimes against the Palestinians in Gaza.
In its application to ICJ, South Africa described Israel’s actions in Gaza as “genocidal in character because they are intended to bring about the destruction of a substantial part of the Palestinian national, racial and ethnical group.”