Brazil joins South Africa’s ‘genocide’ case against Israel at ICJ | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Brazil now joins Spain, Eire, Mexico, Turkiye and others who’ve signed on to the case.

Brazil has formally joined the case launched by South Africa on the Worldwide Court docket of Justice (ICJ) that alleges Israel is committing “genocide” within the Gaza Strip.

The Hague courtroom confirmed in an announcement on Friday that Brazil invoked Article 63 of the ICJ statute, submitting a declaration of intervention within the case.

The article provides any United Nations member state the proper to intervene in a case when the interpretation of a treaty to which it’s a occasion is in query. Brazil used the article to formally acknowledge that Israel is violating the Genocide Conference of 1948.

South Africa and Israel at the moment are invited to “furnish written observations on the declaration of intervention”, the World Court docket mentioned.

The Brazilian Ministry of International Affairs mentioned in July it supposed to hitch the case, citing “impunity” that undermined worldwide legislation because it denounced Israeli aggression in Gaza and the occupied West Financial institution.

Brazil now joins Spain, Eire, Mexico, Turkiye and others who’ve intervened in favor of South Africa to hitch the case in opposition to Israel over the genocidal conflict, which has killed greater than 65,000 Palestinians in Gaza since October 2023.

COMMUNIQUÉ : le Brésil, se référant à l’article 63 du Statut de la #CIJ, a déposé une déclaration d’intervention en l’affaire #AfriqueduSud c. #Israël.

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— CIJ_ICJ (@CIJ_ICJ) September 19, 2025

The ICJ’s remaining verdict may nonetheless take a number of years to return, however the courtroom issued an interim order in January 2024 that obliged Israel to take motion to prevent acts of genocide in Gaza and permit for unimpeded entry to humanitarian assist.

The courtroom additionally dominated that Israel’s presence in occupied Palestinian territory is illegal, and that its insurance policies amount to annexation .

Ignoring these rulings, in addition to mounting worldwide condemnation of its conduct, Israel has since then destroyed way more of Gaza and West Financial institution, and is rapidly advancing with plans to sixteen a lot of the Palestinian territory.

America and the European allies of Israel proceed to arm and fund Israel, whilst credible worldwide our bodies are more and more recognizing that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza .

Washington has additionally rejected the deserves of the ICJ case, and US legislators have directed threats and criticism in opposition to South Africa. The US has additionally issued unprecedented sanctions of members of the International Criminal Court (ICC), who have issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Protection Minister Yoav Gallant.