Which countries have joined South Africa’s case against Israel at the ICJ?
Spain says it will join the case filed by South Africa at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which accuses Israel of violating its obligations under the Genocide Convention in its war on the Gaza Strip.
Making the announcement, Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said, “We made this decision in light of the continuation of the military operation in Gaza.”
More than 10 countries have announced that they are supporting South Africa’s genocide case against Israel’s war on Gaza.
Israel’s treatment of Palestinian workers denounced at UN meeting
The head of the International Labour Organization (ILO) has criticised what he calls the decimation of Palestinian workers’ labour rights since the start of the war in Gaza and has called for an end to new restrictions blocking them from working in Israel.
Israel’s treatment of Palestinian workers, under scrutiny for decades by the UN labour body, has increased since the war. Criticism has focused on more than half a million job losses and Israel’s exclusion of about 200,000 Palestinians from Israel for security reasons.
“This has been the hardest year for Palestinian workers since 1967,” ILO Director-General Gilbert Houngbo said at a meeting in Geneva, referring to the war when Israel seized the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem from Jordan and the Gaza Strip from Egypt.
Labour rights have been “decimated”, he said in a speech presenting an ILO report while asking Israel to reopen its labour market.
His call was echoed by Palestine’s labour minister, many diplomats from countries including Egypt and workers groups. One became emotional describing conditions in Gaza.
At the same meeting, dozens of delegates later walked out of the UN meeting room as Israel outlined its position.
