The International Court of Justice (ICJ) announced that Cuba had filed with the court’s registry, based on Article 63 of the court’s statute, a declaration of intervention in the case concerning the application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip, known as South Africa vs Israel, Wafa reports.

The court explained that “in availing itself of the right of intervention granted by Article 63, Cuba relies on its status as a party to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide of 9 December 1948,” noting that Cuba “will, in its declaration, give its interpretation of Articles I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VIII and IX of the Convention.”