South Africa levels accusations of ‘genocidal conduct’ against Israel at world court

South Africa addressed the UN's highest court on Thursday in a bid to end the mass killing of civilians in Gaza, accusing Israel of carrying out genocide against Palestinians there – a claim that Israel has strongly denied as "baseless".

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Genocide is defined in international law as the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. This can include killing members of the group, causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group, deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part, imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group, and forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. This definition is outlined in the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.