Ireland ‘to pursue legal intervention’ in South Africas high-profile genocide case against Israel at UN top court [Video]

IRELAND is to intervene in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the top court in the United Nations.

Tanaiste Micheal Martin said that he had been told there is a “basis” for an intervention in the high-profile case.

A Declaration of Intervention is now being prepared for the Irish government to approve and will be filed once South Africa has filed its substantive case.

South Africa has taken a case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) accusing it of a genocide in Gaza.

According to local health authorities, more than 30,000 people have been killed and a further 70,000 injured in the Gaza Strip since the start of Israel’s military offensive in the Palestinian enclave.

The UNsaid that a quarter of the region’s 2.3 million population face starvation and around 80 per …