Hope India will support South Africa's case against Israel at ICJ, says Palestinian ambassador

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New Delhi: Palestinian ambassador Adnan Abu Al Haija has urged India to support South Africas ongoing case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), in which Pretoria has levelled accusations of genocide against Israel and called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza...

We hope India plays a bigger role in the peace process and supports this case, the Palestinian envoy exclusively told ThePrint Tuesday...

Last week, the ICJ heard South Africas case against Israel, in which it argues that Israels actions in Gaza have violated the United Nations (UNs) 1948 Genocide Convention, established in the wake of the Holocaust after World War II..

Legal scholars who have exposed international laws complicity in colonialism will be watching South Africa v. Israel to reflect on the question whether international law can ever be decolonised, Nimer Sultany, Palestinian author and reader in public law at Soas University of London, wrote on X...

If there is a ceasefire, the root problem will be addressed, the Palestinian ambassador to India said.. Irans attack on what it perceived as a Mossad command in Iraq Tuesday, has raised fears of a potential spillover of the Israel-Hamas war into a regional conflict...

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