The Israeli government has failed to comply with at least one measure in the legally binding order from the International Court of Justice, in South Africa’s genocide case.

The Israeli government has failed to comply with at least one measure in the legally binding order from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in South Africa’s genocide case, Human Rights Watch said today. Citing warnings about “catastrophic conditions” in Gaza, the court ordered Israel on January 26, 2024, to “take immediate and effective measures to enable the provision of urgently needed basic services and humanitarian aid,” and to report back on its compliance to the specific measures “within one month.”

One month later, however, Israel continues to obstruct the provision of basic services and the entry and distribution within Gaza of fuel and lifesaving aid, acts of collective punishment that amount to war crimes and include the use of starvation of civilians as a weapon of war. Fewer trucks have entered Gaza and fewer aid missions have been permitted to reach northern Gaza in the several weeks since the ruling than in the weeks preceding it, according to United Nations Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

“The Israeli government is starving Gaza’s 2.3 million Palestinians, putting them in even more peril than before the World Court’s binding order,” said Omar Shakir, Israel and Palestine director at Human Rights Watch. “The Israeli government has simply ignored the court’s ruling, and in some ways even intensified its repression, including further blocking lifesaving aid.”

Human Rights Watch found in December 2023 that Israeli authorities are using starvation as a weapon of war. Pursuant a policy set out by Israeli officials and carried out by Israeli forces, the Israeli authorities are deliberately blocking the delivery of water, food, and fuel, willfully impeding humanitarian assistance, apparently razing agricultural areas, and depriving the civilian population of objects indispensable to its survival.

  • @Dasus
    8•10 months ago

    Well I have been accused of that a fair few times by some rather adamant defenders of Israel who, for some reason, said the UN and literally all international news outlets were “Hamas propaganda”, despite not being to show any sources for their own claims. Or perhaps some story in “the times of israel”, a clearly very unbiased source.

    I’ve never been further South than Amsterdam, lol.

    • @[email protected]
      10•10 months ago

      Israel has grown accustomed to unquestioning and unwavering support from western governments and media.

      This is one of the first times they have received push back on their wild , inaccurate, propaganda.

      Pretty sure Israel government was in shock. It’s why even with the slightest investigations, we have been seeing that pretty much everything the IDF says or claims is either a complete fabrication or a stretch of the truth it’s disinformation at best.

      Even Joe Biden has been caught flabbergasted which is why he is only just now noticing that folks in his party are upset Joe is basically complicit in genocide.

      It’s wild to see the curtains pulled back on Netanyahu and the Israeli terrorist state and the genocidal IDF.

      I just hope the citizens there see the truth also and vote Netahahu and his trash party out of office.

      In the past they would lie to our faces and if anyone questioned them they would call them an antisemite.

      That won’t work anymore, and it upsets them when they have to try to justify genocide.