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International Court of Justice hears South Africa, Israel this week
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) announced today that it will hold hearings on Thursday and Friday in the case brought by South Africa to force Israel to withdraw its troops from Rafah.
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South African lawyers will be heard on Thursday and Israel's response the following day, the United Nations' highest court said in a statement.
The South African government last week filed an urgent application to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), based in The Hague, to impose new measures against Israel over the situation in the southern Gaza town of Rafah.
South Africa wants Israel declared an "apartheid state," and has asked the ICJ to order Israeli forces out of Rafah, on the border between Gaza and Egypt, and to strengthen interim measures it previously ordered in a case concerning the Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide to the Palestinian enclave, which has been controlled by the Islamist group Hamas since 2007 and has been the target of an Israeli offensive since last October.
Pretoria has since December been asking the UN court for additional measures, accusing Israel of carrying out "genocide" in Gaza, a charge denied by Tel Aviv.
The Israeli army earlier this month intensified its offensive in the Gaza Strip, notably in Rafah, which it has been pounding with tank and artillery fire, forcing some 450,000 people to flee their homes since May 6, according to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA).
"The streets of Rafah are empty as families flee in search of safety. People are exhausted, hungry and terrified. Nowhere is safe. An immediate ceasefire is the only hope," the agency said.
Until just over a week ago, Rafah was home to 1.4 million Palestinians displaced from other parts of the territory.
The war in Gaza began with an unprecedented wave of rocket attacks on Israel by Hamas, which has left some 1,200 people dead and more than 200 in captivity.
The military offensive in Gaza has so far killed more than 35,000 people, according to the Hamas-run authorities in Gaza and confirmed by the World Health Organization (WHO), a UN agency.
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