LA PAZ, (PIC)
Bolivia’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Monday that it is joining the case filed by South Africa before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against Israel for committing genocide crimes in the Gaza Strip.
Bolivia praised South Africa’s step, in accordance with its commitment to the Genocide Convention, considering it a historic step in defense of the rights of the Palestinian people and the Palestinian cause, stressing the need to support this initiative by the international community.
It also noted that Bolivia, together with South Africa, Bangladesh, Comoros, and Djibouti, presented a request to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate the situation in Palestine on November 17.
Bolivia is the first country in Latin America to announce its support of South Africa’s lawsuit.
South Africa filed a lawsuit against Israel in late December before the highest court of the United Nations, for committing genocide crimes in the Gaza Strip. The court set the dates of January 11 and 12 to hold the hearings.
The Israeli occupation army has been waging a bloody war on Gaza since October 7, killing at least 22,835 people in the besieged coastal territory, and injuring more than 58,416, mostly women and children. The Israeli aggression has also caused massive destruction of infrastructure, leaving the people of Gaza in an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe.
