Susan Sarandon, Cynthia Nixon, Lena Headey and More Support South Africa’s Genocide Charges Against Israel

Susan Sarandon, Cynthia Nixon, Lena Headey and over two dozen other prominent actors have contributed to a series of videos in support of South Africa's case charging Israel with genocide at the International Court of Justice in the Hague.

Published by the Palestine Festival of Literature, the video series features stars including The Crown's Khalid Abdalla and Tobias Menzies, Game of Thrones' Charles Dance, Carice van Houten, Liam Cunningham and Stephen Dillane, Pose's Indya Moore and The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector reading from South Africa's 84-page case file.

Alia Shawkat, Wallace Shawn, Harriet Walter, Paapa Essiedu, Steve Coogan, Maxine Peake, Peter Mullan, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Tunde Adebimpe, Kathleen Chalfant, Adam Bakri, Inua Ellams, Aida El-Kashef, Sepideh Moafi, Maaza Mengiste, Zukiswa Wanner, Maisie Richardson Sellers and Dario Ladani Sanchez also appear in the videos.

South African lawyers presented their case to the International Court of Justice on Thursday, arguing that Israel's assault on Gaza in its ongoing war against Hamas violates the U.N.'s Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

Israel has fiercely defended itself against the charges, saying that Hamas initiated the conflict, which has killed more than 23,000 Palestinians and 1,200 Israelis, in a deliberate act of genocide against Israel.

While the legal proceedings could take years to play out, South Africa is seeking an emergency injunction from the court asking Israel to halt its military campaign in Gaza.