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Conclusion of the public hearings held on Thursday 16 May and Friday 17 May 2024
THE HAGUE, 17 May 2024. The public hearings on the request filed by South Africa on 10 May 2024 for the indication of additional provisional measures and the modification of provisional measures previously prescribed by the Court in the case concerning Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel) concluded today with the statements of Israel.
The delegation of South Africa was led by HE Mr Vusimuzi Madonsela, Ambassador of the Republic of South Africa to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and Mr Cornelius Scholtz, Legal Counsellor, Embassy of the Republic of South Africa to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, as Co-Agents. The delegation of Israel was led by Mr Gilad Noam, Deputy Attorney General for International Law, Ministry of Justice of the State of Israel, and Ms Tamar Kaplan Tourgeman, Acting Legal Adviser of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State of Israel, as Co-Agents.
At the end of the presentation of their arguments, the Co-Agents of South Africa and Israel made the following requests [available in the PDF] to the Court, on 16 and 17 May respectively.