A top U.N. court opens hearings on genocide charges against Israel

Mrkawfee , 5 months ago

A very compelling and at times upsetting presentation by the South African legal team.

Sadly this will come down to politics and judges will vote how their country of origin wants. Finkelstein sums it up well. x.com/mohammedakunjee/status/1743665609794019391?…

Doorbook , 5 months ago

From twitter:

“I can NOT find the International Court of Justice hearing on CNN, BBC, Channel 4, Fox News, MSNBC, CNBC, CBS, NBC, I24, DW, Sky News, or any mainstream US/EU TV channel”

otp , 5 months ago

I don’t watch TV, so I’m ignorant to this – is this normally something they’d broadcast?

Mrkawfee , 5 months ago

Anyone know if we can watch the proceedings being live streamed?

stopthatgirl7 OP , 5 months ago

Al Jazeera is streaming it live on their site and YouTube.

BrikoX , 5 months ago

You have to be either blind or paid off to say it’s not a genocide to kill 90% of civilians and displace from their home 80% of the total population.

WhatAmLemmy , 5 months ago

Or if you consider 2+ civilians for every combatant “tremendously positive”.

At that point you’re indicating your goal is to kill civilians, or you have such a low, subhuman view of them that their deaths are inconsequential. Would the IDF consider two Israeli civilians for every Hamas “tremendously positive”?

NoneOfUrBusiness , 5 months ago

For context even if we assume Hamas killed everyone who died on October 7th, they still did a better job at not killing civilians. And this is also assuming Israel is actually counting civilians and not just counting all men of "fighting age".

nonailsleft , 5 months ago

Ironically, according to Wikipedia the ratio on October 7th was almost exactly 2 civilians for every soldier/police officer