All eyes on ICJ as South Africa’s Gaza genocide case against Israel begins

A legal battle over whether Israel’s war in Gaza amounts to genocide is set to open at the United Nations’ top court with preliminary hearings into South Africa’s call for judges to order an immediate suspension of Israel’s military invasion.

Israel denies the genocide charge even as it has killed more than 23,000 Palestinians, mostly kids and women, wounded nearly 60,000, uprooted 85…