Live from the second day of the open hearing of South Africa's 'genocide' case against Israel at the International Court of Justice in The Hague on Friday, January 12. Israel is scheduled to respond to the case, filed by Pretoria at the ICJ last month, which accuses it of violating its obligations under the Genocide Convention, related to its actions in Gaza. Israeli President Isaac Herzog described the case as 'atrocious and preposterous', while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed his country had shown 'unparalleled morality' in the ongoing war with Hamas. Both countries are signatories to the Genocide Convention. The hearing began on Thursday.
The Government of the State of Israel is represented by:
Mr. Gilad Noam, Deputy Attorney General for International Law, Ministry of Justice of the State of Israel,
Mr. Tal Becker, Legal Adviser, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State of Israel,
Ms. Tamar Kaplan Tourgeman, Principal Deputy Legal Adviser of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State of Israel, as Co-Agents;
Ms. Avigail Frisch Ben Avraham, Legal Adviser, Embassy of Israel in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, as Deputy Agent;
HE Mr. Modi Moshe Ephraim, Ambassador of the State of Israel to the Kingdom of the Netherlands,
Mr. Yaron Wax, Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of Israel in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, as National Authorities;
Mr. Malcolm Shaw, KC, Emeritus Sir Robert Jennings Professor of International Law, University of Leicester; associate member of the Institut de droit international, member of the Bar of England and Wales,
Mr. Christopher Staker, 39 Essex Chambers, member of the Bar of England and Wales,
Mr Omri Sender, Attorney at Law, S. Horowitz & Co, Tel Aviv,
Mr. Galit Raguan, Director of the International Justice Division, Office of the Deputy Attorney General for International Law, Ministry of Justice of the State of Israel, as Counsel and Advocates;
Mr. Eyal Benvenisti, Whewell Professor of International Law, University of Cambridge, Fellow and former Director, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, member of the Institut de droit international and of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities,
Mr. Daniel Geron, Senior Director of Global Justice Policy, National Security Council, Office of the Prime Minister of the State of Israel,
Mr. Amit Heumann, Director of the International Law Department, Office of the Legal Adviser, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State of Israel,
Mr. Eyal Benvenisti, Whewell Professor of International Law, University of Cambridge, Fellow and former Director, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, member of the Institut de droit international and of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities,
Mr. Daniel Geron, Senior Director of Global Justice Policy, National Security Council, Office of the Prime Minister of the State of Israel,
Mr. Amit Heumann, Director of the International Law Department, Office of the Legal Adviser, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State of Israel, as Counsel;
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