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Al Jazeera
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Qaanitah Hunter

South Africa’s legal team says ‘intent is clear’ in Israel’s Gaza genocide

Outside the International Court of Justice, a protester draped in a Palestinian flag calls for an end to Israel's war on Gaza [File: Johanna Geron/Reuters]

Johannesburg, South Africa – While South African legal researchers were in an undisclosed location last week, racing against time to finalise hundreds of pages of evidence proving Israel’s intent to commit genocide in Gaza, in Israel, leaders gathering near the Gaza border were calling for the besieged and bombarded Strip to be emptied of Palestinians.

During the “preparing to settle Gaza” conference, held at a restricted military zone in Be’eri last Monday, Israeli Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir was recorded calling for the “migration” of Gaza’s current inhabitants, and the possibility of future Israeli settlement expansion there – something considered illegal under international law.

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