Gaza - The Hague: Europe and the Arabs
The International Court of Justice stated that the State of Palestine submitted to the Registry a request for permission to intervene and declare intervention in the case related to the application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip, which was filed by South Africa against Israel. Withdrawing what was stated in the United Nations daily news bulletin, a copy of which we received this morning
The Court explained in a press statement that, pursuant to Security Council Resolution No. 9 (1946), Palestine submitted to the Registry, on May 31, 2024, a declaration accepting “with immediate effect the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice to settle all disputes that may arise or have already arisen and which Covered by Article IX of the Genocide Convention, which the State of Palestine acceded to on 2 April 2014.”
The court noted that Palestine cited Articles 62 and 63 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice in its request to intervene.
Article 62 of the Court’s Statute stipulates, among other things, that “if a State considers that it has an interest of a legal nature that is affected by the ruling in the case, it may submit to the Court a request for intervention.”
While Article 63 of the Statute of the Court stipulates, among other things, that “every state notified in the above manner has the right to intervene in the case, and if it uses this right, the interpretation required by the ruling will also be binding on it.”

The director of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the occupied Palestinian territory, Andrea Di Domenico, said that the difficult living conditions faced by Gazans were “progressively eroding the social fabric,” as “the rule of the strong” prevailed over the weak.

Speaking from Jerusalem yesterday, Monday, to reporters in New York, Mr. Di Domenico said that some of the things he saw and heard during his recent visit to Gaza - which lasted three weeks - will remain engraved in his memory, adding that the space available for the people of Gaza to move around has become more and more limited and crowded.
He added: “Today it is impossible to move from Al-Mawasi - where some of our buildings are located - to Khan Yunis or Deir Al-Balah without literally passing through a wave of people everywhere. The movement that used to take 10 to 15 minutes now takes an hour because people are everywhere.” place".
People are carrying "their entire lives to a safer place, if there is any safe place," he said. He said he saw large crowds of people on the beach in southern Gaza. They were there because the heat in the tents during the day was unbearable and because this was the only way for many to wash.