Sputnik and Europa Press
The newspaper La Jornada
Saturday, September 14, 2024, p. 24
Santiago. Chilean President Gabriel Boric announced yesterday that his country had submitted a written statement of intervention to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to join the lawsuit filed by South Africa against Israel for genocide against the Palestinian people.
The State of Chile is part of South Africa’s lawsuit against Israel in the International Court of Justice for the application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. The international community must do everything in our power to stop the massacre in Gaza. We cannot be indifferent.the president wrote on his social networks.
In the document, Chile argued in favor of making use of the right of any State to intervene in a process before the ICJ, when it concerns the interpretation of a convention to which it is a party, in this case, the one relating to genocide.
The comprehensive restriction regime imposed by Tel Aviv on Palestinians in its own territory constitutes systematic discrimination based on, inter alia, race, religion or ethnic origin.Chile said.
The South American country asked the Court to take into account the statements of Israeli officials who have called for kill all the people in Gazaignoring his civil status, and requested that it be established that incitement to commit genocide is an autonomous crime, punishable under the Convention, even if it does not produce the result expected by the perpetrator.
They promote the endorsement of the Palestinian State
Meanwhile, at a meeting on Palestine held in Madrid, attended by representatives of Arab and European countries, including the head of diplomacy of the European Union (EU), Josep Borrell, to advance the two-state solutionparticipants demanded a complete withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza, including the Philadelphia Corridor.
Meanwhile, in the military field, Tel Aviv assured that dismantled the Hamas brigade operating in Rafah in southern Gaza, after having eliminated some 2,000 terrorists during three months of military operations, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement.
Unusual tour to the press
In that context, the Israeli army took journalists on a tour of the tunnels discovered by its troops in southern Gaza, including the entrance to the underground chamber where the bodies of six hostages were recovered. The images released show a narrow, unventilated passage, some 20 metres underground, where the hostages remained, possibly for weeks.