South Africa has accused Israel of breaching convention but International Court of Justice proceedings expected to last years
Ireland to intervene in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel over Gaza invasionThe Irish Times understands that the planned declaration will not allege that genocide is being committed. The motivation instead is to encourage the court to take an interpretation of the convention in a way that prioritises the protection of civilians.
“It is for the court to determine whether genocide is being committed. But I want to be clear in reiterating what I have said many times in the last few months; what we saw on October 7th in Israel, and what we are seeing in Gaza now, represents the blatant violation of international humanitarian law on a mass scale.
Mr Martin said intervention as a third party in a case before the International Court of Justice is a “complex matter and is relatively rare”, noting that since 1948, just four other interstate cases have been initiated under the Genocide Convention before the International Court of Justice.
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