The Hague, February 22 (RHC)-- Cuba's Deputy Foreign Minister, Anayansi Rodríguez Camejo, stressed Thursday the need to impose legal measures against those complicit in the Israeli genocide in the Gaza Strip.

The diplomat offered declarations after she presented Cuba's arguments during the public hearings of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territory.  "We ask the Court not only to pronounce on the legal consequences for Israel for such acts and practices that violate international law, but also to point out the serious legal consequences for its accomplices," he said.

At the same time, he pointed out that a "solid, transparent, forceful, coherent and coherent pronouncement in defence of international law" is expected from the ICJ.

In this sense, he stressed that the advisory opinion issued must be "in keeping with the historic and very serious moment we are living through," while he underlined that the United Nations "have not managed to guarantee the right to self-determination of the Palestinian people".

With regard to Israel's declaration of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as "persona non grata", after he had compared the Israeli genocide to the Holocaust, the Cuban diplomat expressed the support of the largest of the Antilles for the leader of the South American giant.

Lula "has our full support and we accompany him in his tireless denunciation of the genocide, extermination and apartheid that the Palestinian people in Gaza are suffering today at the hands of Israeli forces," she said.

Similarly, Rodríguez Camejo emphasised that a ceasefire in Gaza "requires that a real political will be shown in the UN Security Council to help stop the genocide being committed against Palestine today".In line with this, he denounced the fact that the US had vetoed a resolution submitted by Algeria to the Security Council the day before, calling for a ceasefire, bringing to 48 the number of times Washington has vetoed a resolution on the Palestinian issue and benefiting Israel.

"It's really scandalous, shameful.  You can make mistakes, but not so systematically, so consciously and so continuously," he said, accusing the White House of guaranteeing impunity for the Zionist entity.

This Monday, at the request of the United Nations General Assembly, the ICJ began public hearings that will last until 26 February and in which more than 50 countries will present reports.