Israel Genocide

On 25 August 2026, South Africa submitted a substantial dossier of information to the ICJ, in order to assist the Committee of Judges responsible for monitoring the implementation of the Provisional Measures and recommending potential options for the Court. The dossier was submitted pursuant to Article 11 of the ICJ’s rules concerning Internal Judicial Practice, which provides that such a committee “shall examine information supplied by the parties in relation of provisional measures”. South Africa trusts in the Court’s continued and diligent exercise of its functions.

… South Africa’s continuing efforts at the Court follow its earlier submissions of Letters enclosing Public Dossiers of evidence to the United Nations Security Council on 29 May 2024, 27 February 2025 and 8 September 2025, urging all States to urgently act so as to prevent and punish genocide and to ensure Israel’s compliance with the Court’s Provisional Measures Orders. Similarly, Letters enclosing Dossiers of evidence on starvation were submitted by South Africa to the United Nations General Assembly and the United Nations Economic and Social Counsel in October 2025, requesting their urgent action under Article VIII of the Genocide Convention.

… Israel’s failure to comply with the Provisional Measures Ordered by the Court undermines their protective function and entails further destruction of the Palestinian group.The Provisional Measures were not only ordered to protect the rights of the Palestinian people under the Genocide Convention, they also safeguard the administration of justice and the legitimacy of the ICJ itself, by ensuring that the rights the Court is called upon to vindicate are not destroyed before it renders its final decision.