On March 12, 2026, Namibia, the United States, Hungary, and Fiji each filed declarations of intervention before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) under Article 63 of the ICJ Statute in the case Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel).

Article 63 allows states parties to a convention at issue in a case to intervene where the construction of that convention is in question. If a state exercises this right, the interpretation adopted by the Court becomes equally binding upon it. In their declarations, the four states relied on their status as parties to the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

Pursuant to Article 83 of the Rules of Court, South Africa and Israel have been invited to submit written observations on these declarations.

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