South Africa has filed an urgent application with the UN’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) to order Israel to allow more humanitarian aid into the devastated Gaza Strip, citing the threat of famine. South Africa said it went back to the ICJ to request the emergency measure in light of the “widespread starvation” in the Palestinian territory, according to statement from the court in The Hague. In the statement, South Africa accuses Israel of “continuing egregious breaches of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.” South Africa lamented that at least 15 ch…