The International Court of Justice (ICJ) said earlier this week that it will hold public hearings on 11 and 12 January in proceedings launched by South Africa over Israel’s war on Gaza. Some 23,000 people have been confirmed killed since Israel launched its war on 7 October, with thousands more missing under rubble. Israel has conducted mass arbitrary arrests, field executions, and indiscriminate bombing during its air and ground assault on the Palestinian territory. Almost of all Gaza’s inhabitants have been displaced from their homes, and some Israeli ministers have talked about pushing the …