HAGUE: In a related development, the UN’s top court rejected a call to take action against Germany over the country’s arms exports to Israel.
Nicaragua had petitioned the International Court of Justice ICJ to issue “provisional measures”, alleging “Germany’s participation in the ongoing plausible genocide and serious breaches of international humanitarian law and other peremptory norms of general international law occurring in the Gaza Strip”.
The ICJ ruled against the measure by 15 to one, indicating in a short statement that “the circumstances” of the case as presented to the court “are not such as to require the exercise of its power under Article 41 of the Statute to indicate (the implementation of) provisional measures”.
The court, which is based in The Hague, recently issued provisional measures against Israel, in a case brought by South Africa, in response to a request from South Africa, which accused Israel of genocide in Gaza.
The ICJ ordered Israel to take “all necessary and effective measures to ensure, without delay, in full cooperation with the United Nations, the unhindered provision at scale by all concerned of urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance to Palestinians throughout Gaza”.
