AIA (Reuters) – Colombia has requested the Worldwide Court docket of Justice to permit the nation to intervene in South Africa's case accusing Israel of genocide within the Gaza Strip, the court docket stated on Friday.
In its request, Colombia requested the court docket to make sure “the safety and, certainly, the very existence of the Palestinian individuals.”
The ICJ, the best court docket of the UN, can enable states to intervene and provides their opinions. A number of states have stated they may also search to intervene within the case, however thus far solely Colombia and Nicaragua have filed a public request.
Final week, ICJ judges ordered Israel to take all vital and efficient actions to make sure that fundamental meals provides attain Palestinians in Gaza directly.
In January, the ICJ, also called the World Court docket, ordered Israel to chorus from any act that would fall beneath the genocide conference and to make sure that its troops don’t commit genocidal acts towards the Palestinians in Gaza.
Israel denies concentrating on Palestinian civilians, saying its solely curiosity is to wipe out the militant group Hamas. Attorneys for Israel dismissed South Africa's case as an abuse of the genocide conference.
(Reporting by Stephanie van den Berg; Enhancing by Cynthia Osterman)
