BRUSSELS: A Belgian minister has promised her country’s support for the case filed by South Africa with the International Court of Justice (ICJ), seeking to halt Israel’s aggression in the Gaza Strip.
Caroline Gennez, Belgium’s minister of development cooperation expressed these via her social media account. She added that If the ICJ calls on Israel to cease its attacks in Gaza, they will fully support it.”
In her previous remarks also on social media, she said that Belgium pleaded in the EU and worldwide for permanent truce, full humanitarian access, unconditional release of the captives, respect for global law and a two-state solution as structural solution to this crisis.
She added Belgium’s stance is a “step in the right direction.” She said that their country was taking its responsibility, for human rights and humanitarian law.
Belgian Minister Promises Country’s Support for Genocide Case Against Israel at ICJ
“Meanwhile, I remain committed at every level to making complete humanitarian access to the Gaza strip a reality as soon as possible,” she remarked.
South Africa asked the ICJ to order Israel to immediately halt the war, adding Israel’s actions “are genocidal in character as they are intended to bring about the destruction of a substantial part” of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.
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South Africa said Israel’s war on Gaza has breached the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Fatefully, the convention was drawn up in the result of World War II.
The death toll in the Gaza Strip has passed 24,000 as of January 15, over 100 days into Israel’s war against Gaza, Palestinian officials said.
The hearings were held in the court in The Hague on January 11 and 12, during which South Africa had presented its case.
