JERUSALEM, Israel
Israel’s president has accused the U.N. world court of misquoting him in a ruling that ordered Israel to take steps to protect Palestinians and prevent a genocide in the Gaza Strip.
The court's ruling on Friday
cited statements made by Israeli leaders including President Isaac Herzog as
evidence of incitement and dehumanizing language.
Hamas militants killed around
1,200 people in that attack and took about 250 others hostage. The Israeli
offensive has left more than 26,000 Palestinians dead, displaced more than 80%
of Gaza's inhabitants and led to a humanitarian crisis in the territory.
Talking about Gaza’s
Palestinians at an October 12 news conference, Herzog said that “an entire
nation” was responsible for the massacre, the report by the International Court
of Justice noted.
But Herzog said that it
ignored other comments in the same news conference in which he said “there is
no excuse” for killing innocent civilians, and that Israel would respect
international laws of war.
“I was disgusted by the way
they twisted my words, using very, very partial and fragmented quotes, with the
intention of supporting an unfounded legal contention,” Herzog said Sunday.
In its ruling, the court stopped short of ordering ordering an end to the Israeli military offensive.
But it ordered Israel to do all it can to prevent death, destruction and any
acts of genocide in Gaza and issued a series of orders to Israel that include
an end to incitement and submitting a progress report to the court within one
month.
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