29-04-2025
Israel accused of exterminating Palestinians 'under the fog of war' at ICJ hearings
Egypt has called out Israel's treatment of the Palestinians during hearings at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Al Jazeera reported on Monday.
Egypt's assistant foreign minister Hatem Kamaleldin Abdelkader said Israel had conducted a 'brutal siege' on civilians, saying it was 'the most recent chapter in Israel's systematic weaponisation of humanitarian assistance'.
'There is no doubt that these practices are part of a widespread, systematic and comprehensive state policy to depopulate the Occupied Palestinian Territory and effect its de-facto annexation,' he said.
Abdelkader added that Israel had transferred Palestinians without a legitimate reason to areas that were not any more safe in than the areas they has been forced to feel 'intentionally creating conditions intended to make Gaza uninhabitable'.
Jasmine Moussa, a legal adviser to the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, said Israel's military campaign had 'a far more insidious end": the extermination of Palestinians 'under the fog of war'.
