IRELAND TO INTERVENE IN SOUTH AFRICA GENOCIDE CASE AGAINST ISRAEL

Wed 27 March 2024:

The Republic of Ireland’s Foreign Minister Micheal Martin has said that the war on Gaza now “represents the blatant violation of international humanitarian law on a mass scale”.

“The taking of hostages. The purposeful withholding of humanitarian assistance to civilians. The targeting of civilians and of civilian infrastructure. The indiscriminate use of explosive weapons in populated areas. The use of civilian objects for military purposes. The collective punishment of an entire population,” Martin said in a statement.

“The list goes on. It has to stop. The view of the international community is clear. Enough is enough.”

In January the International Court of Justice (ICJ), also known as the World Court, ordered Israel to refrain from any acts that could fall under the Genocide Convention and to ensure its troops commit no genocidal acts against Palestinians, after South Africa accused Israel of state-led genocide in Gaza.

Martin said Ireland would intervene in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel, but did not say what form the intervention would take or outline any argument or proposal the country plans to put forward.

In a landmark ruling in January, the ICJ directed Israel to “take all measures within its power” to prevent acts falling under the purview of Article Two of the Genocide Convention — crimes intended to destroy a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.

More than 32,200 Palestinians have been killed and over 74,500 injured amid mass destruction and shortages of necessities in the Gaza Strip since Israel launched a brutal offensive against the enclave after the Palestinian Resistance group attacked southern Israel in October, which killed less than 1,150 people.

However, since then, it has been revealed by Haaretz that helicopters and tanks of the Israeli army had, in fact, killed many of the 1,139 soldiers and civilians claimed by Israel to have been killed by the Palestinian Resistance.

International organisations, including UN agencies, have demanded a ceasefire in Gaza and increased humanitarian aid access to address the medical shortages, hunger, thirst and hygiene deficiencies leading to diseases in Gaza.

The UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees said, 10 March, that “hunger is everywhere” in Gaza.

According to the latest data from Gaza’s Health Ministry, 27 people have died from malnutrition and dehydration in the Gaza Strip due to Israel’s blockade, which has caused a massive “humanitarian disaster”.

The Israeli war has pushed 85 per cent of Gaza’s population into internal displacement amid acute shortages of food, clean water and medicine, while 60 per cent of the enclave’s infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed, according to the UN.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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