South Africa asks International Court to issue urgent order to protect Palestinians
SOUTH AFRICA, May 11 (YPA) – The South Africa’s presidency on Saturday asked the International Court of Justice to issue an urgent order to protect the Palestinians after the Israeli occupation’s attack on Rafah.
In a statement issued today, the presidency of South Africa called on the international community and allies of the Israeli occupation “not to turn a blind eye to the ongoing genocide” in the Gaza Strip.
The statement stressed that “the Israeli occupation must immediately take all effective measures to ensure and facilitate the access of United Nations officials and other officials involved in providing humanitarian aid and assistance to the residents of Gaza, in addition to internationally mandated fact-finding missions.”
South Africa also called on the Israeli occupation to withdraw immediately and stop the military attack in Rafah.
On Friday, the International Court of Justice stated that South Africa had submitted an urgent request to take additional interim measures and amend previous measures in the case brought against the Israeli occupation regarding the application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip.
The court, which is based in The Hague, said in a statement that South Africa stated in its request to the court that the previous interim measures “lack the full ability to address the changed circumstances and new facts on which the request was based.”
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