WASHINGTON, March 14 -- Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release:

U.S. Representatives Josh Gottheimer (NJ-5) and Tom Kean (NJ-7) led a letter signed by a bipartisan group of more than twenty Members of Congress thanking German Chancellor Olaf Scholz for announcing his country's intention to intervene on Israel's behalf and for supporting Israel's right to self-defense in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) case brought by South Africa.