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JERUSALEM \u2014 South Africa\u2019s use of the top United Nations court to charge Israel with genocide sparked an angry response Friday from the Jewish state\u2019s U.N. ambassador, who said the legal process aided Hamas, \u2018the Nazis of our time.\u2019<\/p>\n

Gilad Erdan, Israel\u2019s ambassador to the U.N., issued a response to the hearing at the U.N.\u2019s International Court of Justice in the Netherlands that will rule on Israel\u2019s military campaign against the jihadi movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018The proceedings in The Hague demonstrate how the U.N. and its institutions have become weapons in service of terrorist organizations,\u2019 Erdan said. \u2018The use of the Convention on the Prevention of Genocide against the Jewish state and in service of the Nazis of our time,\u00a0Yahya Sinwar and Ismail Haniyeh, proves that there is no moral low that the U.N. has not descended to.\u2019<\/p>\n

Sinwar and Haniyeh are two of the Hamas Palestinian leaders who allegedly mobilized thousands\u00a0of Hamas terrorists to invade Israel Oct. 7, resulting in the murder of 1,200 people, including over 30 Americans. Hamas kidnapped over 240 people.<\/p>\n

\u2018The U.N. is the one who should sit on trial in The Hague for turning a blind eye, and thereby serving as an accomplice, to the digging of terror tunnels in Gaza, in the use of international aid for the production of missiles and rockets and in the education of hatred and murder,\u2019 Erdan said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018If there is even one iota of reason and morality left in the U.N., then the despicable prosecution by the terror-supporting South Africa should be thrown into the dustbin of history in the\u00a0coming\u00a0days.\u2019<\/p>\n

South Africa, which has shown great sympathy and support for Hamas over the years,\u00a0filed the legal case at the International Court of Justice. Israel got a boost on Friday with a statement from the German government against South Africa.<\/p>\n

South Africa has alleged Israel\u2019s military campaign in Gaza amounts to genocide. The convention defines genocide as acts such as killings \u2018committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.\u2019<\/p>\n

On Friday, German government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit said Israel was \u2018defending itself\u2019 after the \u2018inhuman\u2019 attacks by Hamas.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018The German government decisively and expressly rejects the accusation of genocide brought against Israel before the International Court of Justice. The accusation has no basis in fact,\u2019 said Hebestreit.<\/p>\n

\u2018In light of German history and the crimes against humanity of the Shoah, the German government is particularly committed to the [U.N.] Genocide Convention.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

The word Shoah is used by Israel to describe Germany\u2019s destruction of European Jewry during World War II, resulting in the mass murder of 6 million Jews. The U.N. Genocide Convention was signed in 1948, after the Holocaust.<\/p>\n

Hebestreit\u00a0stressed that the Convention is a \u2018central instrument\u2019 under international law to stop a new Holocaust.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018We stand firmly against a political instrumentalization\u2019 of the Convention, he noted.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa.,\u00a0took South Africa to task Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018And now South Africa \u2026 \u00a0bringing that kind of trial,\u2019 Fetterman said. \u2018Maybe South Africa ought to sit this one out when they\u2019re talking about criticizing the behavior of another nation.\u00a0Sit out.\u2019\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The ruling African National Congress (ANC) party\u00a0hosted three Hamas officials in South Africa in December. A senior Hamas representative based in Iran was also present.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The U.S. has classified Hamas a foreign terrorist organization. Hamas\u2019 sponsor, the Islamic Republic of Iran, has been designated by the U.S. State Department as the world\u2019s worst international state sponsor of terrorism.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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