Joan Donoghue, who has simply retired as president of the Worldwide Court docket of Justice (ICJ), spoke to BBC Hardtalk’s Stephen Sackur concerning the case introduced by South Africa to the ICJ over alleged violations of the Genocide Conference by Israel.
Ms Donoghue defined that the court docket determined the Palestinians had a “believable proper” to be shielded from genocide and that South Africa had the correct to current that declare within the court docket.
She mentioned that, opposite to some reporting, the court docket didn’t making a ruling on whether or not the declare of genocide was believable, nevertheless it however did emphasise in its order that there was a threat of irreparable hurt to the Palestinian proper to be shielded from genocide.