Brazil accuses Israel at Hague’s court to commit genocide in Gaza

In fact, the Brazilian government rejected the self -defense thesis used by Israel to justify its actions. “Supposed allegations of self -defense are legally irrelevant in situations of occupation and rejects that the self -defense can be considered a reasonable inference for the Actus Reus in question,” said the Brazilian document.

Itamaraty also rejects the argument that Israel would be acting “proportionality” after Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023. “More recently, the president of the Red Cross International Committee stated that ‘there is no excuse for what is happening in Gaza. The scale of human suffering and the violation of human dignity has long exceeded all acceptable standards

“As rebuked as the terrorist attacks perpetrated by Hamas are in October 2023, the court is required to reaffirm its jurisprudence that any suggestion, when translated into military politics or practice, that the entire Gaza population – including women, children, journalists and UN employees – consists exclusively of terrorists capable of threatening the state of Israel,” Brazil.

“The prohibition of collective punishment is absolute under international humanitarian law,” he said.

Another aspect considered by Itamaraty is the “direct and public statements asking for the extermination of the Palestinians and their mass expulsion of Gaza, the deprivation of living conditions essential to the survival of the Palestinians and the total destruction of Gaza.”

According to Brazil, none of this has stopped since a lawsuit began at the court by South Africa on December 29, 2023.