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.

  • @ParsnipWitchEnglish
    -6•4 months ago

    That is something Palestine and especially Hamas will not accept. They have said multiple times already that they wish for a “pure Muslim state”.

    • @Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3•4 months ago

      There’s Christians living in Gaza for centuries. They have churches. Hamas does not harm them. That “pure Muslim state” isn’t being enforced on a group Hamas could easily oppress. Not sure where you’re getting that from.

      Recently there were Christians in Gaza in a Church which were sniped down. And the snipers weren’t Hamas. They were IDF.

      Pope speaks out after IDF sniper kills two women inside Gaza church, per Catholic authorities

      Hamas has always maintained that they have a problem with Zionism not with Judaism. From their 2017 charter:

      1. Hamas affirms that its conflict is with the Zionist project not with the Jews because of their religion. Hamas does not wage a struggle against the Jews because they are Jewish but wages a struggle against the Zionists who occupy Palestine. Yet, it is the Zionists who constantly identify Judaism and the Jews with their own colonial project and illegal entity.

      As for the second part, israel is the party which refuses to come to any agreement. The israeli cabinet very openly states that they will never recognize a Palestinian state

      Hamas has already said they are open to negotiations in their latest ceasefire deal.