One of the most outlandish claims in South Africa's so-called “indictment” of “genocide” against Israel made Thursday at the International Criminal Court (ICJ) was that Israel The idea was that they were trying to prevent Palestinian births. .
The war began on October 7, when the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas launched a large-scale terrorist attack on Israel from Gaza. Some 1,200 people were killed, including women and children, reportedly including a pregnant woman who was mutilated.
South Africa's complaint to the ICJ is silent on the well-documented fact that Hamas uses hospitals in the Gaza Strip to store weapons, harbor terrorists and hold hostages. One hospital had weapons stored in neonatal incubators.
Instead, South Africans indictment Promotes a conspiracy theory that Israel is actually targeting pregnant Palestinian women (footnote omitted):
Pregnant women and children (including newborns) are also particularly affected by displacement, lack of access to food, water, shelter, clothing, sanitation, and lack of access to health services. These impacts are serious and significant. Of the approximately 52,000 Palestinian pregnant women who give birth each month in Gaza, an estimated 5,500 give birth in “unsafe conditions, in shelters, at home, on the streets surrounded by rubble, or in overwhelmed conditions. In health facilities, sanitary conditions are deteriorating, increasing the risk of infections and complications. ” If you have access to a functioning hospital, pregnant women must undergo a Caesarean section without anesthesia.
The indictment provides no evidence that Israel intended to harm these women, only statements about the effects of the war. It also omits the fact that Hamas rockets hit Israeli hospitals and that Hamas kidnapped children and raped Israeli women.
Among other errors, the indictment says it misquotes the Bible in an attempt to accuse Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of using the Bible to order “genocide,” including the familiar Book of Deuteronomy from the Torah. cites Samuel instead of the relevant passage.
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