🇿🇦 VS 🇮🇱 South Africa take Israel to the ICJ:

South Africa have a team of elite lawyers representing them at the ICJ they are as follows:

⚖️ John Dugard SC

Dugard, a former professor of law at the University of Witwatersrand and director of the Centre for Applied Legal Studies, is one of South Africa’s top international law advocates locally and internationally.

⚖️ Adila Hassim SC

Hassim, based at Thulamela Chambers, has been involved in socio-economic rights matters, including being lead counsel in the Life Esidimeni arbitration

⚖️ Tembeka Ngcukaitobi SC

Ngcukaitobi gained public prominence during the tenure of former president Jacob Zuma and grew in popularity after forming part of the EFF’s legal team arguing in the Pretoria high court for former public protector Thuli Madonsela’s state capture report to be released, which was successful.

⚖️ Max Du Plessis SC

Du Plessis is an advocate affiliated with the Thulamela Chambers, and for many years he was an associate fellow in international law at Chatham House, the Royal Institute for International Affairs in London. He practises and specialises in public law, human rights, international law and competition law.

⚖️ Tshidiso Ramogale

Ramogale completed his pupillage under the mentorship of senior counsel on the team Ngcukaitobi. He also worked as a clerk for justice Sisi Khampepe of the Constitutional Court and was a legal officer at the SAHRC.

⚖️ Sarah Pudifin-Jones

Sarah Pudifin-Jones, a summa cum laude law graduate from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, was among the top law students at the university and completed her LLM and MPhil at Cambridge University.

⚖️ Lerato Zikalala

Zikalala is a Rhodes University alumni where she obtained her LLB degree before completing her LLM at the University of Notre Dame, specialising in international human rights law. She focuses on general public and commercial law with interests in constitutional law and administrative and general public regulatory law.

⚖️ Vaughan Lowe KC

Lowe is a practising advocate at the Essex court chambers in the UK, specialising mainly in international law, with cases heard before the ICJ and the European Court of Justice and courts in England and Hong Kong, among many others. He has sat as an acting judge on the European Court of Human Rights and served as the nominated UK judge on the European Nuclear Energy Tribunal.

⚖️ Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh KC

Words including “compelling”, “persuasive” and “tactically brilliant” are used by the UK legal fraternity to describe Ní Ghrálaigh, who is a senior advocate at the bars of Ireland, England and Wales. She is also on the ICC’s list of counsel and has extensive experience in human rights law, public international law, criminal law and public law.



Wits University’s international law analyst Patrick Kadima viewed the legal team as an “A-team” with lawyers who have their own individual brilliance making the case more interesting.

“The senior counsel team is composed of brilliant lawyers, some of whom have worked on complex international law matters. For example, Prof Dugard is regarded by most of us as the father of international law in South Africa. He has contributed extensively to the field at home and abroad and I can boldly say his contribution is inestimable. His impact, both in the academy and in international organisations, speaks for itself,” he said.

🇮🇱/🇮🇷 BREAKING: Suicide drones have struck two Israeli-linked oil tankers near the Maldives

Both tankers are seriously damaged by the explosions.

Hamas leader Sami Abu Zuhri:

The American administration’s insistence on its position will push the entire nation to view the United States as an enemy, not just Israel.

The occupation killed 20,000 of our people in Gaza with American and Western support

Head of the Political Bureau of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh:

In light of the US Secretary of State's renewed visit to the region, we hope that Mr. Blinken has drawn lessons from the past three months and realized the magnitude of the mistakes made by the United States in its blind support of the zionist occupation and believing its lies, which led to unprecedented massacres and war crimes against our people in Gaza. We also hope that his focus this time will be on ending the aggression as a step towards ending the occupation of all Palestinian land.

At the same time, we wish that our brothers responsible in the Arab and Islamic countries that will meet with the US Secretary of State affirm to the American administration that the future and stability of our region are closely linked to our Palestinian cause and that this cause cannot be bypassed.

Our Palestinian people and their heroic resistance will not accept this detestable occupation to remain oppressively on us, and the pure blood that has been spilled in thousands of massacres and this terrible destruction cannot achieve security or stability as long as our people do not attain their freedom and their fully sovereign independent state with Al-Quds as its capital.

🔻The National Resistance Brigades fought violent clashes in the central Khan Yunis axis, an explosive device was detonated in an Israeli military vehicle, leaving their officers dead and wounded.

Scenes of destruction at the residential towers of Hamad Town, west of Khan Yunis, as a result of being targeted by Israeli missiles.

Evidence of the deliberate targeting of civilian infrastructure.

Tulkaram |

Israeli snipers infiltrated the UNRWA school in the Tulkarm camp. However, the resistance, aware of their tendency to use schools during their raids in the West Bank, was prepared and waiting for them.

Ireland 🇮🇪 |

The group that made the banner to commemorate the leader Saleh Al-Arouri in Ireland is called:

Irish socialists and republicans for Palestine in Derry.

Derry, Ireland |

Derry’s republican youth attacking the crown forces with fireworks as they move in to arrest local activists who erected a Palestine flag on a near by crane.

🔻 Israeli forces storm the suburb of Shweika, north of Tulkarm, a loud explosion was heard

A former soldier who fought in Gaza in 2014 speaks to Owen Jones about how the display of humiliating photos and the destruction of structures in Gaza serves to create a sense of victory or accomplishment for Israeli society.

Initial reports of two deaths and a number of injuries in the bombing of a house for the Khattab family in the Al-Hakar area in Deir Al-Balah .

FYI

The number of ships carrying the Liberian 🇱🇷 flag surpasses that of British ships!

🇾🇪 Yemen |

Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, head of Yemen's Houthi supreme revolutionary committee, said that any country to involve itself with the United States-led Red Sea coalition will lose its maritime security and be targeted.

Al-Houthi made the comments on Friday in an interview with the BBC.

There are reports of Indians who do not hold Israeli passports and are not Jewish, fighting in Gaza. And The UAE facilitated all of this…..

The United Arab Emirates will stick by its decision to establish warmer relations with Israel and here is what the Emirati officials stated regarding this:

“The UAE has taken a strategic decision, and strategic decisions are long-term,”

“There is no doubt that any strategic decision will face multiple obstacles, and we’re facing a major obstacle that must be dealt with.”

Anwar Gargash a UAE presidential diplomatic adviser, told a conference in Dubai on Wednesday.

French Israelis discuss the lack of children in the Gazan Schools.

🇱🇧Hezbollah - The Islamic Resistance carried out a number of operations against the positions and deployment of the Israeli enemy army on the Lebanese-Palestinian border on Friday 1/5/2024, according to the following:

- Western sector:

1- At 15:45, the Birkat Risha site was targeted by artillery shells and was directly hit.
2- At 16:15, a position of Israeli enemy soldiers in the vicinity of the Al-Dhahira site was targeted with Burkan missiles, and it was directly hit.
3- At 19:40, the Barkat Risha site was targeted with Burkan missiles and was directly hit.

The moment the Israeli forces opened fire on the martyr Aseed Al-Rimawi and two other young men in confrontations in the town of Beit Rima, Ramallah District, at dawn today.