News - Middle East: Libya’s decision to file an intervention before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the genocide case against Israel will encourage other countries to join the legal action to isolate the regime, says an African analyst.

Abdiwahab Sheikh Abisamad, a Kenya-based executive director of the Institute for Horn of Africa Strategic Studies, in an interview with the Press TV website, commended Libya’s announcement to join South Africa’s legal case against the Israeli regime over its genocidal war against Palestinians in Gaza.
He said the action would boost the morale of South Africa and encourage other countries to join them in isolating the Israeli regime and raising awareness about the dangers of Zionism around the world.
On Friday, the Libyan Presidential Council announced that it had joined South Africa in the ‘Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide’ in Gaza at the top UN court based in the Hague.
The Libyan embassy in the Netherlands also announced in a statement that the country has been officially notified by the UN court about the submission of the declaration of intervention in line with Article 83 of the ICJ.
Speaking to the Press TV website, Abisamad referred to the ICJ verdict issued on January 26 ordering the Israeli regime to take specific provisional measures to prevent the crime of genocide against the Palestinian people in the besieged Palestinian territory.