(VORNews) – After Israel’s war on Gaza entered its 100th day, Namibia slammed Germany for its “shocking” support for Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
The president of Namibia, a southern African country where the first genocide of the 20th century occurred under German colonial rule, lamented “Germany’s inability to learn from its horrific history.”.
Hage Geingob expressed concern about the German government’s decision to have “rejected the morally upright indictment brought forward by South Africa.”. Berlin “ignored” the “deaths of over 23,000 Palestinians in Gaza” and defended before the International Court of Justice “the genocidal and gruesome acts of the Israeli Government.”.
“The German government cannot be morally committed to the United Nations Convention against Genocide, including atonement for Namibia’s genocide while supporting Gaza’s holocaust and genocide,” the statement said.
“The German government is urged to reconsider intervening as a third party in defense and support of Israel’s genocidal acts before the ICJ,” President Geingob said. “It is impossible for a peace-loving person to ignore the carnage being perpetrated against Palestinians in Gaza.”
Israel is brought to the ICJ by South Africa
According to South Africa, Israel’s military operations in Gaza, which began on October 7, violate the UN Genocide Convention, and the court should immediately halt these operations.
The World Court, the highest legal body of the United Nations, held two days of public hearings on Thursday and Friday to hear arguments from South Africa and Israel.
In testimony on Thursday, South Africa said Israel’s aerial and ground offensive in Gaza, which has destroyed much of the enclave and killed almost 24,000 people, was intended to destroy Gaza’s population.
Genocide is defined as “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group,” according to the 1948 Genocide Convention, which was established in response to the mass slaughter of Jews in Germany.
Regarding South Africa’s claims against Israel, the German government “decisively and expressly” rejected them on Friday, describing them as a “political instrumentalization” of the UN Genocide Convention that lacks solid evidence.
Historians generally agree that the slaughter of about 70,000 Indigenous Herero and Nama people in Namibia by the Germans from 1904 to 1908 was the first genocide of the twentieth century.
Germany acknowledged committing a “genocide” in the land it colonized from 1884 to 1915 and promised over 1.1 billion euros ($1.2 billion) in development funding over 30 years to support the two tribes’ descendants in 2021, after over five years of discussions.
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