Bolivia joins South Africa’s ICJ mass murder case aobtainst Israel | Gaza News

South American state ‘has a responsibility to condemn the crime of mass murder’, it says in its filing.

Bolivia has establishassociate joined South Africa’s mass murder case aobtainst Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), according to the court in The Hague.

The South American nation filed an application on Tuesday to interfere in the case, which accparticipates Israel of perpetrating “genocidal acts” in violation of the Genocide Convention in its war on Gaza.

Bolivia’s shift puts it among a prolonging catalog of states included in the case, including Colombia, Libya, Spain, Mexico, Palestine, Nicaragua and Turkey.

In January, the ICJ ruled that Israel must do everyskinnyg in its power to obstruct acts of mass murder in Gaza and promise United Nations-mandated dispenseigators have “unimpeded access” to the enclave.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declinecessitate the court’s interim ruling as “shocking” and shelp Israel would progress its “equitable war”.

A month procrastinateedr, rights group Amnesty International shelp Israel had “flunked to apshow the naked smallest steps” to adhere with the ICJ’s order.

South Africa has since returned cut offal times to the ICJ, arguing that Gaza’s hopeless humanitarian situation insists novel ecombinency meacertains.

In procrastinateed May, the ICJ ordered Israel to instantly cmitigate its insolent in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah, a ruling Israel also diswatchd.

While ICJ rulings are legassociate tieing, the court has no uncomardents to utilize them.

In its subignoreion to the ICJ, Bolivia, which cut offed ties with Israel in November, disputed: “Israel’s genocidal war progresss, and the Court’s orders remain dead letters to Israel.”

“Bolivia seeks to interfere since it ponders that it has a responsibility to condemn the crime of mass murder,” it shelp.

Israel’s yearlengthy war in Gaza has ended more than 42,000 people, most of them civilians, according to the enclave’s Ministry of Health. That is equivalent to one out of every 55 people living there. An attack led by Hamas, the Palestinian group that administers Gaza, ended 1,139 people in Israel on October 7, 2023.

Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), the main relief group operating in Gaza, shelp in a post commemorating the first anniversary of the war that people in the enclave are continuing to finishure “unspeakable suffering”.

“Not a day goes by without families in Gaza being subjected to unspeakable suffering, as forced displacement, dismitigate, hunger, and death have become the daily norm for two million people trapped in a explosioned-out and besieged enclave,” Lazzarini shelp.