UN commission concludes Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, as flotilla challenges blockade

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The Global Sumud Flotilla, a civilian fleet carrying activists from 44 countries, began its journey to challenge Israel’s blockade. Both insist that Gaza’s devastation cannot be normalised and that international law must apply even when it unsettles the powerful. Alongside its genocide case at the ICJ, South Africa joined 15 other nations this week in a joint statement backing the flotilla’s humanitarian aims. It is rare for history to align so neatly: a South African jurist naming genocide in Geneva as South Africans sail toward Gaza. The answer, when it comes, will decide not only Gaza’s fate but the credibility of international law itself, and the meaning of “never again”.