The International Court of Justice in The Hague will announce, the day after tomorrow, Friday, its decision on accusing Israel of committing genocide in the Gaza Strip, which has been witnessing an ongoing war for 110 days.

Earlier this month, South Africa asked the International Court of Justice to order an emergency suspension of Israel's devastating war in the Gaza Strip, accusing it of carrying out state-led genocide.

Israel rejected the genocide charge as "grossly distorted" and claimed that it had the right to defend itself and that it was targeting Hamas, not Palestinian civilians.

In the initial ruling, the ICJ will not deal with the main question of whether Israel is committing genocide. The court will only consider potential emergency measures, intended as a type of restraining order while the court considers the entire case, which usually takes years.

On the 12th of this month, during the second session of the International Court of Justice regarding its accusation of committing genocide crimes in its war on Gaza, which has been ongoing for 98 days, Israel claimed that its response to the attack of last October 7 was “legitimate and respects international law.” 

It claimed that the Israeli army “did not violate the rules of war, there will be an Israeli judicial investigation, and there was no intention to carry out genocide.”

Israel's legal team called on the court to "reject South Africa's request, because it deprives Israel of defending itself and of recovering 136 hostages."

In the first session of the International Court of Justice in The Hague, South Africa accused Israel before the International Court of Justice of committing acts of genocide in the Gaza Strip, and stressed that the attack launched by Hamas cannot justify what it is committing in the Gaza Strip. It called for the immediate suspension of Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip.

Earlier, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel will continue its war against the Gaza Strip until “overwhelming victory and the achievement of its goals,” indicating that the International Court of Justice “will not stop” the ongoing war on the Strip.

Reports indicated that the prevailing expectations in Israel are that the International Court of Justice will issue a precautionary decision against it in the framework of the South African lawsuit.

The legal expert, Professor Mordechai Kremnitzer, pointed out in the newspaper "Haaretz" that "whatever the decision in The Hague will be, it is important to realize that only a short distance separates us from the accusation of genocide or other crimes against humanity."

He added earlier this month, "This distance will remain short, and will bring us into an area of extreme danger. If Israel responded to the statements of the reckless ministers and tightened the noose around the necks of all Gazans to the point of starvation and death, many countries would stand against us in The Hague, committed to preventing the crime of genocide and punishing its perpetrators. The credit for this goes to the United States” by obliging Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to allow humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip.