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Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel) — Belize Files a Document Containing an Application for Permission to Intervene and a Declaration of Intervention in the Proceedings

Excerpt:  “Belize welcomes South Africa’s initiation of the present proceedings against Israel under the Genocide Convention. Belize considers that the relevant facts were well set out in South Africa’s Application at the time it was made, and in its subsequent submissions made in the context of its requests for provisional measures in January, February, March and May 2024. Belize also notes the updated facts as presented in the State of Palestine’s Request for Intervention and Declaration of Intervention filed on 31 May 2024. Since that time, the ‘disastrous’ humanitarian situation in Gaza continued to deteriorate. Despite the Court ordering in May 2024 an immediate halt to Israel’s military offensive in Rafah and that Israel ‘[m]aintain open the Rafah crossing for unhindered provision at scale of urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance’, the assault of Rafah continued unabated, leading to the evacuation of more than one million Palestinians, strikes on designated ‘safe’ zones, and to Israel taking full control, closing — and keeping closed — the Rafah crossing.” (footnotes omitted)

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application (39 pages)