Watch LIVE: ICJ hears Israel’s defence against South Africa’s genocide claim in Gaza

Watch the second day of the ICJ proceedings as the court hears Israel’s arguments against South Africa’s case for an emergency order to stop Israeli military action in Gaza. Israel responds to South Africa’s case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), in which it is accused of failing to prevent genocide in the besieged Gaza Strip. In its 84-page written application to the ICJ in December, South Africa said Israel’s actions in Gaza were “genocidal in character because they are intended to bring about the destruction of a substantial part of the Palestinian national, racial and ethnic group“. South Africa presented its case on Thursday at the Hague, in a three-hour hearing in which lawyers detailed what they said were clear examples of genocide. They pressed the court to decide on urgent provisional measures to ask Israel to stop its actions. Tembeka Ngcukaitobi, a lawyer at the hearing, said that South Africa was not alone in drawing attention to Israel’s genocidal rhetoric against Palestinians. Ngcukaitobi said that at least 15 UN special rapporteurs and 21 members of UN working groups have warned that what is happening in Gaza reflects a genocide in the making. Read everything you need to know about this case: See our full coverage: