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.
what a surprise that a genocidal regime refuses to comply with anti genocide orders.
Israel is hopeless…
An order that has no enforcement arm.
I suppose there is the idea of honour. Or simply, wanting the world to be sure you are not committing genocide.
Instead the Israelis have turned a whole generation against them. they will find it hard to travel and be accepted as a civilised people from this point on.
there is no significant protest in Israel against the genocide. they are complicit. the only protest is against the way things are being done.
There is, but it’s being systematically repressed, often violently.
Just like in Russia, thousands are being brutalized by their government for protesting while people like you make frankly bigoted statements about how they’re all willingly complicit.
Israel isn’t hopeless, Bibi just has to go
If there is no significant protest against the genocide then they are hopeless.
There is, though, see my first reply to your untrue assumptions for documentation.
you are free to show me documented instances of mass protest against the genocide in the strip.
the Israelis are fine with the destruction. they even revel in it.
I already did here, can’t you read?
There are a few great anti war protestors but 80% of israel supports the current Genocide.
The current media spin is that this is all just a “Netanyahu problem”. But what we’re seeing now is just israel. And it’s what israel always has been.
So what is the solution for this problem, in your opinion?
A one state solution with equal rights for all.
And a trial for both governments and armies.