The Maldives announced that it had submitted to the International Court of Justice a request to join the genocide case filed by South Africa against Israel, due to its war on the Gaza Strip.
This came in a statement published by the President of the Maldives, Mohamed Moiso, on the X platform, yesterday, Tuesday, in which he said that his country requested to join the lawsuit filed by the Republic of South Africa at the end of December 2023 against Israel before the International Court of Justice within the framework of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention of Genocide. Dated 1948.
Moizo pointed out that the request to join is based on Article 63 of the Court’s Statute, which gives states the right to join for the purpose of making a statement regarding the interpretation of the contract in question, stressing the need to hold Israel responsible for its illegal actions in Gaza.
“The rule of law must be guaranteed, and Israel must end the acts of genocide against the Palestinian people,” he said.
He stressed the Maldives’ support for the Palestinian people, and that Palestine and its capital, East Jerusalem, should be recognized and established on the basis of the pre-1967 borders.
It is noteworthy that Nicaragua, Colombia, Libya, Mexico, Palestine, Spain and Turkey previously joined the cause of genocide in Gaza.
With absolute American support, Israel has been waging a war on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, resulting in more than 138,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing persons, amid massive destruction and famine that claimed the lives of dozens of children, in one of the… The worst humanitarian disasters in the world.
