Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel): DECLARATION OF INTERVENTION BY IRELAND pursuant to Article 63 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice

55. On behalf of the Government ofireland, I have the honour to submit to the International Court of Justice (‘ the Court’) the following Declaration of Intervention pursuant to Article 63, paragraph 2, of the Statute of the Court (‘the 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). 
57. … in Ireland’s view the Convention should be considered not only as a criminal law instrument that obliges Contracting Parties to establish jurisdiction over, and punish commission of, the crime of genocide by individuals, but also as a human rights instrument that obliges them not to commit genocide as well as to prevent genocide against any national, ethnical, racial and religious group (a ‘protected group’) under their protection or within their power.