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Top UN court to hear genocide case against Israel next week

The building of the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands. [Reuters]

The United Nations's top court will hear submissions next week from South Africa and Israel after Pretoria opened a case for what it called Israel's genocidal acts in Gaza.

South Africa wants the International Court of Justice to urgently order Israel to suspend its military operations in Gaza, in a case that Israel rejected "with disgust."

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