Statement

The State of Palestine welcomes the decision of the Republic of South Africa to urgently request for the indication of additional provisional measures and the modification of the ICJ’s Order of 26 January 2024 and subsequent decision of 16 February 2024, in order to ensure the safety and security of the 2.3 million Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip, particularly in relation to the engineered famine, starvation, and destitution by Israel. 

The Palestinian people are no longer at immediate risk or death by starvation. The Palestinian people are dying of starvation. Israel is massacring the Palestinian people seeking to obtain extremely limited humanitarian aid.  

Israel, through its deliberate acts and omissions, is knowingly and unabatedly violating the Genocide Convention and is defying the provisional measures by the ICJ. The unfolding genocide in Gaza justifies and indeed demands that the ICJ immediately and urgently modify its prior decisions on provisional measures and indicate additional provisional measures, including immediate halt to Israel’s genocide.  

Israel is exterminating and annihilating the Palestinian people. There are no words and no bounds to the savagery and barbarism of Israel. We appeal to the ICJ to act now, before it is too late.