20 January 2024
Indonesia is preparing its legal arguments for an ICJ hearing to challenge Israel for its “blatant violation of international law against Palestine”, multiple reports said on Friday.
Unable to support South Africa’s ICJ case, which accuses Israel of genocide, due to Jakarta not being a signatory to the Genocide Convention, a separate hearing where parties are to establish their views on the matter is scheduled to take place at The Hague on February 19.
Indonesia’s Foreign Ministry has “assembled a team of experts to help formulate arguments in an ICJ advisory case that seeks to hold Israel accountable” for its various violations of international law and well-documented crimes against humanity in Occupied Territories.
Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi stated, ahead of a conversation with legal experts in Jakarta that “our deliberations today will not only support Indonesia’s diplomacy, but support the enforcement of world order according to international law and to support our Palestinian brothers and sisters to achieve their independence”.
“The main point of all Indonesia’s efforts is to look for all possible ways to continue supporting the Palestinian struggle.”
This adds further international pressure on the Israeli state to cease its ongoing ethnic cleansing of the Gaza Strip.
