BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain became on Thursday the first European country to ask a United Nations court for permission to join South Africa’s case accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza.

South Africa filed its case with the International Court of Justice late last year. It alleged that Israel was breaching the genocide convention in its military assault that has laid waste to large swaths of Gaza.

The court has ordered Israel to immediately halt its military offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah but stopped short of ordering a cease-fire for the enclave. Israel has not complied and shows no sign of doing so.

“There should be no doubt that Spain will remain on the right side of history,” Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said after his foreign minister made the announcement.

Mexico, Colombia, Nicaragua, Libya and the Palestinians are waiting for the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, to grant approval to their requests to join the case.

Israel denies it is committing genocide in its military operation to crush Hamas triggered by its deadly Oct. 7 attacks in southern Israel.

Hamas killed 1,200 people and took 250 more hostage in the surprise attacks. Israel’s air and land attacks have since killed 36,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which doesn’t distinguish between combatants and civilians.

“Hamas killed 1,200 people and took 250 more hostage in the surprise attacks. Israel’s air and land attacks have since killed 36,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which doesn’t distinguish between combatants and civilians.

“We take the decision because of the ongoing military operation in Gaza,” Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares said in Madrid. “We want peace to return to Gaza and the Middle East, and for that to happen we must all support the court.”

Once admitted to the case, Spain would be able to make written submissions and speak at public hearings.

Spain’s request is the latest move by Sánchez’s left-wing coalition to support peacemaking efforts in Gaza.

Spain, Ireland and Norway formally recognized a Palestinian state on May 28 in a coordinated effort by the three Western European nations. Slovenia, a European Union member along with Spain and Ireland, followed suit and recognized the Palestinian state this week.

Over 140 countries have recognized a Palestinian state — more than two-thirds of the U.N. — but none of the major Western powers, including the United States, has done so.

While Sánchez has condemned the attacks by Hamas and joined demands for the return of the remaining Israeli hostages, he has not shied away from the diplomatic backlash from Israel. Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said that by recognizing a Palestinian state, Sánchez’s government was “being complicit in inciting genocide against Jews and war crimes.”

Sánchez’s backing of the Palestinians is generally supported in Spain, where some university students have followed their American counterparts in protesting on campuses. Spaniards will vote in elections for the European Parliament elections on Sunday.

Last year, the International Court of Justice allowed 32 countries, including Spain, to join Ukraine’s case alleging that Russia breached the genocide convention by falsely accusing Ukraine of committing genocide in its eastern Luhansk and Donetsk regions, and using that as a pretext for the invasion.

Preliminary hearings have already been held in the genocide case against Israel, but the court is expected to take years to reach a final decision.

Albares said the decision by Spain’s government had the immediate objective of adding pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to follow the court’s interim measures to stop bloodshed in Rafah.

“I insist once again that these interim measures must be complied with,” Albares said. “Whether this is genocide or not, that is for the court to decide, and Spain of course will support its decision.”

Israel sent troops into the southern city of Rafah in early May in what it said was a limited incursion, but those forces are now operating in central parts of the city. Last week, Israeli strikes hit near a U.N. Palestinian refugee agency facility in Rafah, saying they were targeting Hamas militants. An inferno that followed ripped through nearby tents housing displaced families , killing at least 45 people.

More than 1 million people have fled Rafah since the start of the operation, scattering across southern and central Gaza into new tent camps or crowding into schools and homes.

Netanyahu is also facing a separate legal challenge from the International Criminal Court, whose prosecutor is seeking an arrest warrant against the Israeli leader and others, including leaders of the Hamas militant group. The U.N. General Assembly endorses the ICC, but the court is independent.

Source: AP New
https://apnews.com/article/spain-israel-icj-genocide-case-67d4d9b8ecf6fd88e718319a5d93465a

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With these measures and pressure, it seems that the end of the war is now in sight. Enough of killing of innocent civilians, women, children on both sides. We need peace and justice for both warring sides.

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Small nyash dey shake
useless people

Cliques of attention seeking nations





Fire on Israel 🇮🇱, death to all terrorists!

Okay
Na people wey no get problem dey find problem we for naija dey tackle alot

Time for Righteousness to come and spew his usual garbage.

Hamas attacking you (because you've been oppressing the Palestinians for decades, all very well documented) doesn't give you the right to keep killing innocent women and children under the guise of fighting Hamas.

Just yesterday, they even bombed a UN shelter, such recklessness should not be tolerated.

What no problem.

Let's deal this misleading narrative by mischievous people trying to relate the events in Gaza and what's happened in aba abia state Nigeria.

Hamas is like a nation under the shadows of a more stronger Israel. What they did is like attacking a sovereign nation which is an act war.

What happened in aba is just like what's happening in the north for example the Fulani herdsmen, iswap, bokoharam and the kidnappers. Boko haram terrorists kill soldiers everyday in large numbers so do we now for total extermination of the city that bokoharam killed the soldiers in the north, maybe because we suspected that some northerners are speaking in favour of hamas terrorists in Palestinian Most people in Nigeria need to purge themselves of ethnic hatred.

Stop relating what's happening in Palestinian to whatever happens in Nigeria just because of your dislike of a tribe.

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Damnnn niggar
Isoright

Make una continue.

Israel will stand alone with or without anyone.

Death to all terrorist

Spain is a bloody Hippocrate
Israel should recognize Catalonia ASAP
#Free Catalonia

Interesting

RemoveKebab:
Israel should recognize Catalonia ASAP
#Free Catalonia

Payback is coming. Trust me.

Make dem finish dealing with Hamas first.

Cry me a river

One step at a time.

Countries already started joining the folds.

Before you remove dust in someone else's eyes, remove the log of wood from yours


Has Spain looked into the blantant racism and human rights abuse that Africans go through every day in their country?

The same Spain that their coastguard along with the Moroccan coastguards always sink the boats of African migrants, killing them in their hundreds? That same Spain? Or is it because this matter no concern black africans this time?

Countries are just using this Gaza thing for virtue signalling, they just dey catch cruise.

Spain like Italy, Ireland and the other useless European countries wey carry dis Gaza matter for head, should look into the racism crisis that migrants are going through in their countries first. Fix that one first

Who do anyhow go see anyhow

Dea+h to all terrorists..
Peace to the fallen.

At the end, nothing will happen.

TruthU87:

Source: AP New
https://apnews.com/article/spain-israel-icj-genocide-case-67d4d9b8ecf6fd88e718319a5d93465a

What of Nigerians being kill their country?

Unnecessary attention for Arab financial support. When will they join the calls for terrorists Hamas to release the hostages, and surrender?

Hamas are cowards.They started the war, when the war was intense,they start hiding among women and children.You guys should come out and fight like a man and stop hiding.

Spain should be called to order. Allow South Africa to continue with their waste to waste exercise.

These countries had better not start what they cant finish. When Hamas struck first where were they?

Very good

Spain is turning to something else but this will only make her less relevant in the scheme of things. Hamaz and all it's supporters must go down for peace to return to that enclave.

Cheaters use Diplomacy . This is war, all is fair in love and war💯

Only if they can invade isreal

Tjra:



Payback incoming. Trust me.

Make dem finish dealing with Hamas first.

I trust Israel.
They always have something underneath their sleeves.
I just dey pity those countries against Israel
Everyone go collect.

Murmur MURIC you no go lead your supporters go join

Okay

If Spain like make them relocate to Gaza, all of dem go gather collect 💯💯💯