Brazil Officially Joins South Africa at ICJ in Israel Genocide Case

The Hague, MINA – Brazil has officially filed a declaration of intervention with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the case brought by South Africa against the Israeli regime for its genocidal war in the Gaza Strip, which has been ongoing since October 2023.

On Friday (9/19), the Hague-based court confirmed that Brazil had submitted the declaration to the court’s registry on September 17, citing Article 63 of the court’s statute, Press TV reported.

Brazil argued that it was exercising its right as a party to the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide before filing its intervention. In explaining its move, Brazil stated that the war had violated several articles of the convention.

The decision was first revealed by the Brazilian newspaper Folha de S. Paulo and confirmed by Reuters on July 23.

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Recently, the United Nations Human Rights Council-mandated Commission of Inquiry pointed out that Israeli officials and forces “have had and continue to have” genocidal intent toward Gaza’s population of more than two million.

Israel’s brutal military assault has claimed the lives of nearly 65,200 Palestinians, most of them women and children, since its onset. It has been using a combination of incessant aerial and ground attacks and a near-total siege of the Palestinian territory to maximize suffering and fatalities. []

Mi’raj News Agency (MINA)

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