The Israeli government has called on the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague to reject an urgent request submitted by South Africa over the Israeli offensive in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. “The repeated requests for provisional measures made by South Africa, which are based on false claims and deliberate omissions of fact in order to assist Hamas, are yet another attempt to cynically exploit the International Court of Justice in The Hague,” a spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry, Oren Marmorstein, wrote on X on Saturday. “South Africa continues to act as the legal arm…