Cuba to Join South Africa’s Genocide Case at ICJ against Israel

sajadi - Tuesday, 14 January 2025 - 07:09 WIB

Tuesday, 14 January 2025 - 07:09 WIB

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The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the UN, holds public hearings on the request for the indication of provisional measures submitted by South Africa in the case South Africa v. Israel on 11 and 12 January 2024, at the Peace Palace in The Hague, the seat of the Court. Session held under the presidency of Judge Joan E. Donoghue, President of the Court. The Court’s role is to settle, in accordance with international law, legal disputes submitted to it by States and to give advisory opinions on legal questions referred to it by authorized UN organs and agencies.

The Hague, MINA – Cuba has filed a declaration that it will join South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, the court announced on Monday.

“Cuba, pursuant to Article 63 of the Statute of the Court, files a declaration of intervention in the case concerning the Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip with the Registry of the Court,” the court said in a statement, as reported by Anadolu Agency.

In December 2023, South Africa filed a lawsuit against Israel, alleging violations of the Genocide Convention against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Several countries have joined the cause, including Nicaragua, Colombia, Libya, Mexico, Palestine, Spain, and Turkey.

Israel has continued its brutal assault on Gaza since the Hamas offensive in October 2023 despite a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire.

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Nearly 46,600 people, most of them women and children, have been killed and more than 105,000 injured, according to local health authorities.

The Israeli offensive has displaced almost the entire population of the territory amid an ongoing blockade that has led to severe shortages of food, clean water and medicine, turning much of the territory into an uninhabitable wasteland. (T/RE1/P2)

Mi’raj News Agency (MINA)

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