Egypt has decided to join the lawsuit against Israel filed by South Africa with the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the Egyptian Foreign Ministry announced, Paralel.Az reports.

"Egypt announces its intention to formally join the case filed by South Africa with the International Court of Justice," the Egyptian ministry said in a press release. According to it, the move comes amid "the worsening severity and scope of Israeli attacks against Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip." All this, Egypt’s diplomatic agency underscored, is in "flagrant violation of the provisions of international law, and the 1949 Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War."

Egypt called on the Jewish state to "implement the ICJ’s provisional measures ordering Israel to ensure the entry of enough humanitarian aid to meet the needs of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip."