“Falseness lasts an hour, and truth lasts until end of time”

Yesterday, the world watched the second day of the International Court of Justice sessions in The Hague, when Israel submitted its responses to South Africa’s lawsuit regarding committing genocide against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Israel failed in its responses, as South Africa did not leave it with a single loophole in a tight and elaborate file and did not give it any opportunity to achieve an element of surprise for the judges who heard the lawsuit and the Israeli objections, and they were left with issuing timely decisions and then waiting for a longer period for the issuance of the decision regarding the genocide.
Israel has asked the judges of the Court of Justice to drop the genocide case brought against it by South Africa, which asked the UN court to order an immediate halt to the Israeli military campaign in the Gaza Strip.
In its response to the accusations made by South Africa before the court on Thursday, Israel said yesterday that the demand to stop its attack against the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in Gaza has no basis because it will allegedly lose its freedom to work to protect the Israelis and repel any military attack from the Gaza Strip, in addition to preventing the return of 136 hostages.
Israel claimed that its response to the attack of last October 7 was legitimate and claimed that it respected international law and that the Israeli army “did not violate the rules of war, and there will be an Israeli judicial investigation and there was no intention to carry out genocide.”
Many questions were raised after the Israeli interventions. There is no doubt that the most important of them revolves around the massive scale of destruction and the very large number of Palestinian dead. Does this confirm the freedom of action, as Israel claims, to protect the Israelis? Does self-defense require the demolition of about half a million Palestinian facilities on the heads of their families and owners? In light of its monitoring, can these actions be considered an army of occupation that has adopted the rules of international action and has not violated the law?
Yesterday, Israel failed to respond to what we presented. (The Minister of Justice of South Africa) added: We adhere to the facts of the law and the evidence that we presented and are confident that they confirm the existence of an intention to carry out genocide against the Palestinians.
Can Israel ignore the statements of its officials? Most importantly, according to the Genocide Convention, nothing justifies the way Israel is waging war, which confirms the existence of genocide.
Is it reasonable for the resistance in Gaza to kill this tumultuous number of civilians, and for Israel to attempt a circumvention that has been exposed and whose claims have been refuted, to give itself justification for bombing shelter centers, displaced people, hospitals, schools, UNRWA headquarters, mosques, churches, and others? It says and claims that Hamas misused these headquarters and that it is the reason for the high number of casualties.
There are many weak points of Israeli arguments in this file, and there is no doubt that the confidence of South Africa and its legal team makes us feel comfortable, as it gave a press conference yesterday in which it confirmed that it will win the case.
South Africa, which had suffered for many years of persecution, racism, and discrimination, triumphed in the end, and here it is a country that takes the scales of justice as an approach in managing its affairs. When it addressed this issue and advocated for Palestine and its people, it inevitably started from the common saying “Falseness lasts an hour, and truth lasts until end of time.”

 The round of injustice will not last, O Israel, and no matter how much darkness prevails, the light will shine in the end to shed light on the justice and integrity of our cause.