A team of more than 600 lawyers from around the world submitted evidence to the International Criminal Court as part of a case they filed against Israel on charges of committing genocide and ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip.

This came in two separate meetings held by lawyers with the court’s Public Prosecutor’s Office and its Victims Department.

This team, led by French lawyer Gilles Defer, submitted to the International Criminal Court last November a 56-page lawsuit demanding the opening of an investigation into the incidents attributed to the occupation army in Gaza since the seventh of last October.

The text of the lawsuit traces the threads of the case from its beginning, starting with the period of the British Mandate and the Balfour Declaration, then the Nakba of the Palestinian people, the various Israeli-Arab wars, the Oslo Accords of 1993, the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip and Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, then the ongoing war on the Strip.

The submission of new evidence in the case file comes a day before an expected decision by the International Court of Justice regarding the lawsuit filed by South Africa against Israel on charges of committing genocide in Gaza.

The United Nations court said that it will hold a plenary session at the Peace Palace in The Hague, during which the president of the court, Judge Joan Donoghue, will announce the order of the committee consisting of 17 judges.

The court may issue an order to Israel to stop its war on Gaza within the framework of so-called "temporary measures", in order to protect the Palestinians of Gaza until the essence of the case is decided, which may take years.

Since Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7, the Israeli army has been waging a devastating war on Gaza that, as of yesterday, Wednesday, left 25,700 martyrs and 63,740 injured, according to data from the Ministry of Health in the Strip.

Source: Al Jazeera + agencies