The ICJ hearing is over
South Africa wants the court to order a halt to the military operation in Rafah and Israel to allow unimpeded access to Gaza for U.N. officials, organisations providing humanitarian aid, and journalists and investigators.
In hearings on Thursday and Friday, South Africa and Israel each have two hours to make their case on the new request for emergency measures.
There will be no witness testimony and no cross-examinations. The presentation will be mostly legal arguments brought by state officials and lawyers.
I didn't hear much of it just some of a sort of Israeli summation. That contained some signs of have to crack eggs to make an omelet arguments. Can't see that relating to justification in terms of what the action is about. Then what a load of rubbish SA's actions and claims are. SA is a friend of HAMAS. Aid more interesting, Naming a recent day when 360 trucks went in. Pass on that as complaint from several sources is a lack of consistency. Fuel mentioned - video does show that is getting into all areas. The counter - it will run out. The UN have said they will monitor everything that does go in also in detail so suppose the judges have access to that. Hospitals are fine. Also some field hospitals. Israel doesn't have zones where people in them get shot. Rather weird as they have more or less said they do.
Israel has been given limited time to provide a couple of answers to questions. One was asked by one of the judges. Unusual, it seems.
Nothing seems to be coming out of Rafar. Bit of a rumour that Israel is moving further in. Could be that we will find out when the plan has worked and the entire area has been attacked. BBC mentioned this piecemeal approach but no mention of where the info was coming from. Might be suspicion
just like me as given the number of evac's US are likely to be happy. UN says the numbers are increasing. Latest 600,000 if I remember correctly. The area they are going to based on a video is very crowded.