A pronouncement in the clearest, strongest and most forceful legal terms, in defense of International Law, on the crimes committed by Israel against the Palestinian people, was demanded yesterday by the Republic of Cuba before the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
Cuban Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Anayansi Rodríguez Camejo, addressed the legal elements to determine the responsibility of the occupying power and that of the other international actors involved, as well as the legal implications that should correspond to such intentional acts or omissions, according to the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Minrex).
She mentioned the violations against the Palestinian people, such as denying them the right to self-determination and measures to alter their demographic composition; the annexationist acts of their territory, since 1967, and the status of the Holy City of Jerusalem.
The Palestinian issue, she said, requires a clear position on the legal consequences of the non-applicability and violations of the Fourth Geneva Convention, adding that the land, sea and air blockades constitute collective punishment, and are extreme violations of freedom of movement and the enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights
She stressed the need to address the complicity of countries such as the United States with genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, and the apartheid regime in Palestine.
Cuba concluded its statement with the demand for a clear pronouncement to the International Court of Justice, whose Advisory Opinion should establish the legal consequences for Israel, the other States and the United Nations, for the violations of the norms of prohibition of the threat or use of force, the equality of rights and self-determination of peoples, as well as of the main international instruments on human rights, among others.
