90K and counting, massive support for SA ICJ petition against Israeli Genocide
More than 90,000 people have so far signed an online petition started on change.org endorsing “South Africa’s referral of Israel to the ICJ (International Court of Justice) for its genocidal crimes against the Palestinian people in Gaza”, and the number is growing every second. Read More
Mumbai: A huge support is building up in support of the South Africa petition at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague urging the UN court to hold Israel accountable for its genocide against the Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip.
More than 90,000 people have so far signed an online petition started on change.org endorsing “South Africa’s referral of Israel to the ICJ (International Court of Justice) for its genocidal crimes against the Palestinian people in Gaza”, and the number is growing every second.
South Africa filed its petition at the International Court of Justice on December 29, 2023 accusing Israel of genocide. The ICJ accepted the SA petition and confirmed it will hold a public hearing on it on January 11 and 12, 2024.
To endorse and support the SA petition at ICJ, Riyad Tibi, who is based in the United Kingdom, started the online petition titled “Why this petition matters” on the online platform six days ago.
"We the undersigned applaud and fully support South Africa’s referral of Israel to the ICJ (International Court of Justice) for its genocidal crimes against the Palestinian people in Gaza", Riyad Tibi wrote in the petition.
"We hope that this action will lead to some form of international action that will put an end to the suffering of the people of Gaza, and also lead to achieving justice after two months of incessant war crimes by Israel which have led to 21,000 deaths so far", he wrote.
Riyad Tibi further said that South Africa in its application at ICJ 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”.
The acts in question include “killing Palestinians in Gaza, causing them serious bodily and mental harm, and inflicting on them conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction", South Africa said in its plea at ICJ.
After a slow start, the petition on change.org is now receiving a huge online support. As many as 90,809 internet users have signed Riyad Tibi’s petition – around 70,000 of them signing in the last two days, at the time of filing this report.
Meanwhile, the Israeli Occupation Forces have continued their brutal military offensive targeting civilians in Gaza Strip, and also the Occupied Palestine, killing close to 22,500 Palestinians – more than 70 per cent of them women and children, as on January 05, 2024.
According to the Health Ministry of Palestine, the Israeli airstrikes on the civilian areas and refugee camps in Gaza have killed 125 Palestinians and left 318 others injured in the last 24 hours.
The besieged Gaza Strip is also facing acute water and food shortage because of the Israeli blockade since Oct 7.
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