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And Canada their cheerleader
Buttu slams Canada’s response to ICJ ruling on Gaza genocide
Diana Buttu, a Palestinian-Canadian lawyer and former spokesperson for the Palestine Liberation Organization, has slammed Canada’s response to the ICJ ruling on alleged genocide perpetrated by Israel in the execution of its war on Gaza.
“Awful statement by Canada re ICJ. Included in it are racist Israeli talking points (re: ‘human shields’) with the added touch of demanding more humanitarian supplies. Disgusting,” Buttu wrote on social media.
Canada’s Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said in the statement: “Our support for the ICJ does not mean that we accept the premise of the case brought by South Africa. It is for the ICJ to make a final decision on the case, which it has not done today.”
“Canada will continue to support Israel’s right to exist and defend itself, in accordance with international law,” Joly said. “Canada continues to support urgent international efforts towards a sustainable ceasefire. This cannot be one-sided. Hamas must release all hostages, stop using Palestinian civilians as human shields, and lay down its arms,” she said.
While the UK pretends they're not complicit
UK’s Labour Party calls on Israel to comply with ICJ genocide ruling ‘in full’
“The ICJ’s measures align closely with Labour’s longstanding calls for the protection of civilians, urgent humanitarian relief in Gaza and an end to extremist rhetoric. We will press for these orders to be implemented, alongside an immediate humanitarian truce and a sustainable ceasefire.”
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has not commented on the ruling, but the Telegraph newspaper reported that Downing Street referred the its reporter to an earlier speech by Sunak in which he described South Africa’s case against Israel as “completely unjustified”.
The Oakland court case might not go anywhere, just as with the ICJ hearing the genocide case, it's already a great relief for Palestinians to finally be heard in court.
US civil case hearing on Biden administration’s ‘complicity’ in Gaza genocide concludes
Al Jazeera’s Rob Reynolds reporting from the courthouse in Oakland, California, said the civil case brought by rights groups and Palestinian-Americans has concluded, and Biden’s defence team was hopeful the judge will issue a ruling “within a couple of days”.
“This is a case brought … against President Biden and senior officials in the Biden administration saying that they were complicit in genocide in Israel’s war on Gaza under the 1948 international convention against genocide,” Reynolds said.
Wael Buhaissy, one of the plaintiffs in the case, said their day in court was “historic”. “Today was an incredible day. Indeed, an historic day. For the first time in perhaps 75 years we, the Palestinian community, representing our people in Gaza, got to tell our story and got to share our truth. We talked about our siblings, our cousins, our uncles, our family members that were murdered in Israel’s genocide, and we got the court to hear us,” Buhaissy said.
“We put President Biden and his administration on notice – they are now charged with genocide by us. This is indeed an historic day,” he said.
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