Israel wants members of the U.S. legislature to endanger South Africa with consequences, including the break-up of trade relations with the U.S. if the country does not waive the suit in the UN global Court of Justice against Israel – stated Axios, citing the Israeli MFA's dispatch to the diplomatic missions of this country in the US.
"We ask you to start working immediately with national and state legislators, governors and judaic organizations to put force on South Africa to change its policy towards Israel," the Israeli MFA said in a statement.
It was noted that Israeli diplomats were besides called to lobby in all possible way to advance laws against South Africa in the US to effort to influence African country's policy.
Nameless Israeli officials told the portal that Israel hopes that the fresh South African coalition government will change the country's policy towards Israel and the war in the Gaza Strip.
On 10 May, South Africa made an urgent request to the UN global Court of Justice for additional measures against Israel in view of the situation in Rafah due to ‘changed circumstances and fresh facts’, the applicant besides requested that the measures already imposed by the court be adjusted on 26 January. At that time, the court ordered Israel to take all measures to prevent genocide in the Gaza Strip, to punish calls for Palestinian genocide, to guarantee the movement of humanitarian aid to the residents of the area, and to guarantee that the evidence related to the charges against the Palestinian people described in the Convention on Genocide was secured.
At the same time, the UN court did not oblige Israel to discontinue its military operation in the Gaza Strip, as South Africa requested in its lawsuit. On 29 December 2023, South Africa filed a suit against Israel to the global Court of Justice in The Hague under the Convention on Genocide due to the situation in the Gaza Strip, calling on the court to take provisional measures against the Israeli authorities. South Africa stated that Israel's actions against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are "infringing its obligations under the Convention on Genocide". According to the message of the African country, “the actions and omissions of Israel [...] are genocides due to the fact that they have been committed with a concrete intention ... to destruct Palestinians in the Gaza Strip as part of a wider Palestinian national, racial and cultural group”.
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