Published January 14,2024
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Bangladesh on Sunday backed South Africa in presenting a battle crimes case towards Israel to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for violating the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide by constantly bombing the Gaza Strip for the previous 100 days.
Bangladesh mentioned it helps South Africa’s name, as a State Party to the Genocide Convention, for provisional measures to halt all navy operations in Gaza and permit protected, enough, and unhindered humanitarian assist into all areas of the besieged enclave.
“In this context, Bangladesh welcomes the opportunity to file a declaration of intervention in the proceedings in due course,” mentioned a Foreign Ministry assertion.
Bangladesh additionally reiterated its earlier requires an finish to Israel’s occupation of Palestine and for a long-term and everlasting answer that features the institution of a sovereign and unbiased Palestinian state alongside pre-1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital.
On Dec. 29, South Africa filed the case earlier than the ICJ in The Hague, submitting photograph proof captured by the Turkish international news company Anadolu that clearly exhibits Israel dedicated battle crimes within the Gaza Strip.
The public hearings within the case towards Israel started on Thursday.
As Israel’s atrocities in Gaza attain the grim 100-day mark, a minimum of 23,968 Palestinians have been killed and 60,582 others have been injured in Gaza since Israel launched an offensive on Oct. 7, the Palestinian Health Ministry mentioned on Sunday.
On the one hundredth day, Israeli forces carried out “11 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, resulting in 125 casualties and 265 injuries over the past 24 hours,” it mentioned in a press release, including that the overwhelming majority of these killed are ladies and kids.
Israel has launched relentless air and floor assaults on Gaza following a cross-border assault by Palestinian group Hamas on Oct. 7.
Authorities declare the assaults by Hamas have killed round 1,200 Israelis.
The Israeli onslaught has left Gaza in ruins, with 60% of the enclave’s infrastructure broken or destroyed and almost 2 million residents displaced amid acute shortages of meals, clear water, and medicines.
Source: www.anews.com.tr