The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that the campaign to vaccinate 640,000 children in Gaza against polio had so far been more successful than expected as families flocked to receive the treatment.
Teams of health workers delivered the two-drop oral vaccine to 161,030 children in the first two days of the roughly 10-day operation, surpassing the organization’s goal of 150,000 for the first phase of the campaign in central Gaza.
“It’s going well,” Rik Peeperkorn, the organization’s representative for the Palestinian territories, told reporters by video link from Gaza on Tuesday, describing an “almost festive” atmosphere as families went to designated sites to get their children vaccinated.
First sentence actually: “Experts, governments, United Nations agencies, and non-governmental organisations have accused Israel of carrying out a genocide against the Palestinian people during its invasion and bombing in the Gaza Strip during the ongoing Israel–Hamas war.”
You know who else was found to have committed genocide through accusations by international organizations, NGOs, governments, and experts? Literally every government that’s committed genocide in the history of fucking anything ever because there’s not a god of genocide that descends from on high to inform humanity that a genocide has been committed. Like I know this genocide-denying argument is being made in bad faith, but can you at least have some dignity about it and make it seem like you’re at least trying to be intelligent?
Actually the UN asserted jurisdiction over the parties and they will have an evidentiary trial on the merits. If all South Africa has at trial is a bunch of fundraising solicitations from NGOs, and “reports” from state media of Qatar and Bahrain, they might be compelled to find against South Africa.
Go read the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina v. Serbia and Montenegro. Sorry international law is more complex than you feel it should be.