“As part of a political strategy, preparations were made before the October 7 atrocity against Israel to set mechanisms in place for approaching the ICC and ICJ for protection from Israel's anticipated response,”
That is a pretty serious allegation, and true, surely implicates South Africa in being complicit in Oct 7th?
Begs the question of how they and Hamas knew there would be a ‘genocide and starvation’ in advance and raises suspicions that the accusations were planned before the atrocities of Oct 7th, and any retaliation, even took place?
Doesn’t this, again if proven, discredit the ICC arrest warrants issued against Netanyahu and Gallant?
I was actually asking for thoughts on the article I posted. Not on the war that is going on now.
It goes without saying, all civilian deaths are an absolute tragedy in any war.
It is beyond evil that Hamas continue to hide out in schools and civilians areas deliberately putting innocent Palestinians in danger. Why are people who have the courage to take a stance for Palestinians STILL not outraged and protesting about that @Arayofcalm?
Really @EasterIssland you don’t think it matters that hypothetically say, the leaders of a UN member country enabled a designated terrorist organisation (designated in the whole of the Western world), to bring about a prosecution of the leaders of another UN member country it intended to invade and commit one of the world’s worst terrorist attacks on, to the International Criminal Court before they’d carried it out?
As for the Israeli government having intelligence that an attack was about to happen, this analysis is quite comprehensive with information made public to date:
https://ctc.westpoint.edu/the-october-7-attack-an-assessment-of-the-intelligence-failings/
Also this article gives some background:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/07/intelligence-failures-before-7-october-attack-hamas-israel-gaza
What relevance does that have in relation to these allegations about South Africa though?