Israel is committed to international law and acts in accordance with it, and directs its military efforts only against the Hamas terrorist organization and the other terrorist organizations cooperating with Hamas, its statement said, adding that it has made every effort to limit harm to the non-involved and to allow humanitarian aid to enter the Gaza Strip. US President Joe Biden said earlier this month that that Israel is engaged in indiscriminate bombing in Gaza. US intelligence assessment suggests that nearly half of the air-to-ground munitions that Israel has used in Gaza in its war with Hamas have been unguided, otherwise known as dumb bombs. Unguided munitions are less precise and can pose a greater threat to civilians. South Africas application came as Israels military said Friday that it is expanding its operations in southern Gaza, where civilians were previously told to seek refuge. It also claimed to have destroyed a network of tunnels and one of the hideout apartments belonging to Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. CNN cannot independently verify the IDFs claims.South Africa is gravely concerned with the plight of civilians caught in the present Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip due to the indiscriminate use of force and forcible removal of inhabitants, a statement released by South Africas Department of International Relations and Cooperation said on Friday.Furthermore, there are ongoing reports of international crimes, such as crimes against humanity and war crimes, being committed as well as reports that acts meeting the threshold of genocide or related crimes as defined in the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, have been and may still be committed in the context of the ongoing massacres in Gaza, it says.As a State Party to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, South Africa is under a treaty obligation to prevent genocide from occurring. South Africa and Israel are both parties to the Genocide Convention, according to the ICJ, which is also known as the World Court and is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations. The post South Africa files genocide case against Israel at International Court of Justice over Gaza war appeared first on Ringroad.com.ng Your Free Online Search Engine .