Israel appears to be in breach of ICJ orders on Gaza, senior UN official says.
Israel appears to be in breach of ICJ orders on Gaza, senior UN official says.
Special rapporteur cites lack of medical supplies, food and clean water, and continued demolition of infrastructure
It also pointed out that the Israeli authorities denied access to 56% of humanitarian aid missions planned for northern Gaza (34 out of 61) and 25% of missions planned for the middle area (28 out of 114) in January. Since 26 January the number of trucks allowed to enter Gaza, an inadequate metric, never exceeded 218 and was typically below 150.
Waiting for the Zionists in the comments to explain how this is all Egypt or Hamas' fault somehow
They'll just downvote you. They have no arguments at all.
No you don't get it Hamas lost a lot of Hamas due to Israel's super targeted military response and as a result they need flour to make more Hamas. Israel is cutting off Hamas's Hamas supply and it's not a war crime because human shields.
Don't forget the right wing protesters who are preventing humanitarian aid to reach Gaza, which the Israeli government does very little about.
Seriously one would assume that since they are under investigation by the ICJ for committing of genocide in Gaza, Israeli authorities will be a little bit more concerned with their actions and public image, but they seem to act with impunity and believe they will get another pass by the western governments.
We sanctioned the shit out of Russia and did absolutely nothing here.
Russia is our enemy and Israel our ally and the US, especially the right wing, has been trying to delegitimize the UN for years, mostly so the corporations can keep selling weapons to both our own military as well as our allies. It's not like the sanctions against Russia were ever going to stop the war. They were just designed to give Ukraine a chance to prolong it and sell more weapons to the American people to give to Ukraine. Russia wanted a quick war and that wouldn't be good for business. With Israel, since they're looking to keep the war going until there are no more Muslims, we don't want anything to interfere with that.
Thanks! We clearly need a de-amping bot in Lemmy too...
There’s an extension on iOS called Amplosion that fixes Amp links. Probably one on Android but I’m not positive.
And I wrote a little bookmarklet to get rid of Google highlighting text and scrolling down like I don’t want to read an entire article. Just make a bookmark and replace the URL with this:
javascript:var%20url=window.location.href;%20cleanurl=url.split('%23')%5B0%5D;%20window.location.replace(cleanurl);
its seems like israel is planning to run a trail of tears and then convert gaza into a metro resort. after thousands of years of assumed moral superiority, claiming to be the light leading humanity? its flabbergasting. its a good will bbq, and likely to fail anyway.
What made you assume they had any moral superiority?
Not just Israel, all the countries that defunded the humanitarian aid.
The article at least mentions that even though the order didn't demand ceasefire, it practically did very explicitly:
The State of Israel shall ... desist from the commission of any and all acts within the scope of Article II of the Convention, in particular:
(a) killing members of the group;
(b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to the members of the group
Many western media had the headline "no ceasefire ordered" which made the order sound like it was nothing. The western media too is complicit in atrocity.
The western media too is complicit in atrocity.
For the sake of profit they will light the spark that burns down the world and then blame us for forcing them to do it.
I think many of the people in Palestine felt betrayed that they did not use the words cease fire. When faced with this existential crisis, nothing less is acceptable.
The icj used language that practically meant cease fire, but mid east news expressed disappointment.
So I guess the point I'm trying to make is that you're admonishing "Western" media, but if that was the perspective you heard - No cease fire was called for - it probably accurately represents the sentiment of many of the people there.
The South Africans understood what the icj said, and their comments immediately following the decision illustrated that.
You could be right but the way the media here works is that they do report the facts but bias them. The headline sets the tone, and how the article is written makes it more likely to come to one conclusion. So it would take much more work to make my point. But I'm pretty sure: Even if they do technically report the facts there is a huge bias to manipulate the population in the "free" press.
In this case something like "ooohh too bad the court didn't give the arabs what they wanted poor guys!" while it really was a legal victory - the court specifically ordered them to stop killing of palestinians.
I can't read newspapers without getting super angry lol
Honestly, what gives? The language you are quoting here is neither from the article nor from the ICJ order.
The ICJ order did not require Israel to take a single affirmative step other than to provide a status report on or before February 23rd, as this article mentions in the second paragraph.
As a lawyer that as read the order, it's you that is misrepresenting it not "western media."
Direct quote from: https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20240126-ord-01-00-en.pdf
- The Court considers that, with regard to the situation described above, Israel must, in accordance with its obligations under the Genocide Convention, in relation to Palestinians in Gaza, take all measures within its power to prevent the commission of all acts within the scope of Article II of this Convention, in particular: (a) killing members of the group; (b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; and (d) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group. The Court recalls that these acts fall within the scope of Article II of the Convention when they are committed with the intent to destroy in whole or in part a group as such (see paragraph 44 above). The Court further considers that Israel must ensure with immediate effect that its military forces do not commit any of the above-described acts.
- The Court is also of the view that Israel must take all measures within its power to prevent and punish the direct and public incitement to commit genocide in relation to members of the Palestinian group in the Gaza Strip.
- The Court further considers that Israel must take immediate and effective measures to enable the provision of urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance to address the adverse conditions of life faced by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
- Israel must also take effective measures to prevent the destruction and ensure the preservation of evidence related to allegations of acts within the scope of Article II and Article III of the Genocide Convention against members of the Palestinian group in the Gaza Strip.
Tell me again how you're a lawyer who read the order lol. But we've seen again and again how Israel operatives lie to justify their fascist regime and their genocide.
Countries de-funded UNRWA because they had people on their payroll that participated in actual genocide on October 7.
Many countries have switched to providing aid through alternative channels.
Really Guterres should resign, because how can an investigation of the UNRWA be trusted when it's in the best interests of the UN Secretary General to prove it didn't happen to avoid responsibility?
At this point the UN is just becoming less and less of a factor in the conflict because of their failures in leadership. I mean trying to make excuses for October 7, then not even apologizing when there's a valid complaint about it. The UN is failing at diplomacy 101. The UN failed to properly vet the people they have working for them. If people on the UN payroll committed genocide, how seriously can we take claims coming from the UN about genocide?
We really need the UN be a part of a potential future peace in Gaza, but the UN is continuously failing in every possible way in regards to Gaza. There needs to be serious changes at the UN. There's a need for an impartial diplomatic organization in the world, and the UN in it's current form simply isn't capable of being that.
Why are you lying? There is zero evidence provided that any UNRWA member participated in the attack.
The "evidence" that was provided by israel was proven fake by Sky News and Channel4.
Sniping doctors performing surgery might have given it away too
Ya think?
Shocked.
Shocked I am.
Boycott, Divest, and Sanction Now.
no shit sherlock
I how Israel realizes that as soon as they're done with the Palestinians the Christians are going to come in and start genociding the Jews. They've demonstrated its legal there.
All g then
The ICJ also ordered Hamas to release all hostages, but never mind that...
Hamas is a proscribed terrorist organization, under international sanctions. Nobody expects them to bow to UN pressure.
Israel is supposedly a responsible and law abiding nation state, with diplomatic ties, international recognition, and is expected to behave according to international law.
If you want equal treatment that can be done, the UN is repeatedly tired of Israel's behavior
But they're such good friends, they allow Hamas to build tunnels below UN HQ.
https://twitter.com/DrEliDavid/status/1756369328184734024?t=x9wntjsdvZaM-H2Yt8eguw&s=19
Does anyone here actually consider Hamas anything other than a terrorist organization that got voted in in 2007 and then shut down election?
Did anyone here actually believe that Hamas were ever the good guys?
We used to think the Israelis weren’t on the same page, and we hope that they will eventually.
As much as we hate them right now, most of us still believe that they might be able to come back.
TLDR: False equivalency
I hate that election talking point. Hamas didn’t even win a majority — they won a plurality against split opposition with Fatah plagued by corruption scandals — and 65% the population was under 25 when this war started (so like unborn or not past third grade in 2007).
Probably pretty safe to assume 80% or so of current Gazans didn’t vote for Hamas.