Nicaragua drags Germany to ICJ for ‘facilitating Israel’s genocide’ in Gaza Managua accuses Berlin of violating the Genocide Convention by funding Israel’s war on Gaza. More than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed and about 7,000 remain missing since Israel launched its brutal assault on October 7 [AFP] Published On 2 Mar 20242 Mar 2024 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024...icj-for-facilitating-israels-genocide-in-gaza Nicaragua has sued Germany at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for funding Israel and cutting aid to the UN Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA), the court announced on Friday. The Latin American country accused Berlin of violating international law in its continued funding for Tel Aviv and asked the ICJ to order emergency measures that would force Germany to cease military aid to Israel, and restart funding to the UNRWA. “By sending military equipment and now defunding UNRWA which provides essential support to the civilian population, Germany is facilitating the commission of genocide,” Nicaragua said in its filing, citing the 1948 Genocide Convention and the 1949 Geneva Conventions on the laws of war in the occupied Palestinian territories. Germany is a key ally of Tel Aviv, and is one of its biggest arms providers alongside the United States, according to UN experts. A hearing date is not yet known, however, the ICJ, also known as the World Court, usually starts proceedings on requests for emergency measures within weeks. At least nine UNRWA donors, including the United States, Germany, Switzerland, Canada and the United Kingdom, suspended funding after allegations that about 12 of the tens of thousands of Palestinians employed by the agency were suspected of participating in Hamas’s October 7 attacks in Israel. But Israel has yet to provide evidence to UN investigators more than a month after it made its claims. Berlin was the second biggest donor to UNRWA after the US in 2022 when it pledged $202m to the agency. The UNRWA has warned that the suspension of its funding could lead to the agency being unable to provide humanitarian aid to Gaza, which has seen deaths due to hunger and a lack of health facilities. On Thursday, at least 117 people were killed after Israel fired at hundreds of Palestinians waiting to collect food aid in Gaza City. The incident has triggered global condemnation and calls for an independent investigation. Emergency measures, Nicaragua said in its Friday filing, were necessary because of Berlin’s “participation in the ongoing plausible genocide and serious breaches of international humanitarian law” in the Gaza Strip. Under the genocide agreement, countries agree not to commit genocide, meaning complicity in the act is a violation. The pact also enables member states to actively prevent and punish possible genocide. The Managua case comes after an earlier and much-followed filing by South Africa last December which accused Israel of committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. In February, the ICJ ruled that Pretoria’s claims that Israel violated the genocide convention were not implausible and ordered emergency measures, including a call for Israel to halt any potential acts of genocide in Gaza. Israel, which defended itself in the South Africa hearings, has denied allegations of genocide, citing “self-defence”, though experts have questioned Israel’s “right to defence” as an occupying power. The case is continuing. Last week, Human Rights Watch said hampering the delivery of aid by Israel was a violation of the January 26 ICJ order. “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,” Omar Shakir, Israel and Palestine director at Human Rights Watch, said on February 26. Israel has also been criticised for targeting civilians, with more than 80 percent of those killed being women and children. More than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed and about 7,000 remain missing since Israel launched its brutal assault on October 7 in the wake of a deadly attack carried out by the Palestinian Hamas group. In separate proceedings at the ICJ, more than 50 countries in February presented arguments against Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and occupied East Jerusalem since 1967. Source: Al Jazeera and news agencies
It’s laughable that little third world countries with lengthy histories of violence themselves are going to drag major countries to the ICJ to force the first world countries to fund a UN organization which promotes terrorism & has terrorists as employees while also demanding nations not provide the means for countries to defend themselves against terrorism. All this just goes to show the ICJ system is a complete joke and meaningless. Tell us what actions has the ICJ taken which actually held Russia accountable in Ukraine? Oh look, we created an arrest warrant for Putin which has been ignored around the world including by South Africa which is trying to put Israel on trial for genocide at the ICJ. Hint: It is Hamas attempting to commit genocide and wipe all the Jews & Israel off the face of the earth. In fact Hamas has this directly written as their objective in their charter.
keep in mind Nicaragua's a dictatorship at the moment, so virtue signaling by despots doesn't hit as hard as one would wish it to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ortega
I wonder if airdrop distro is also handled by defense contractors? After all, the goons that lobby tougher laws for minor offenses and immigration crackdowns are the same goons that run our prison system and handle meals (GEO group, Aramark, & core civic) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison–industrial_complex
The ball is in Hamas's court. They are the sole entity blocking an internationally-supported ceasefire deal. US says Israel has agreed to the framework for a Gaza cease-fire. Hamas now must decide RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel has essentially endorsed a framework of a proposed Gaza cease-fire and hostage release deal, and it is now up to Hamas to agree to it, a senior U.S. administration official said Saturday, a day before talks to reach an agreement were to resume in Egypt. https://www.wral.com/story/deadly-c...esperation-enveloping-the-territory/21309537/
is "hamas must be eliminated" part of the framework or you and your boy Bibi's dropped that requirement?
Putin has been able to attack Ukraine because Putin knows Biden is weak. Biden is afraid of Putin and timid in supplying Ukraine with long range weapons. Biden is weak on its Southern borders immigrant flows. Biden is weak against Netanyahu, even Blinken is useless, totally frozen against obvious genocide. China knows Biden is weak which continues to flex its muscles against Taiwan and South China Sea. U.S. adults who think Joe Biden is a strong leader October 2023 Published by Statista Research Department, Feb 23, 2024 As of October 2023, the majority of surveyed adults in the U.S. consider Joe Biden a weak leader. Of those, 41 percent considered Joe Biden a very weak leader. This is compared to 26 percent of respondents who considered him to be a somewhat strong leader.
British ship M/V Rubymar, crippled by Houthi strikes, sinks in Red Sea By Mike Heuer March 2, 2024 March 2 (UPI) -- The British bulk carrier M/V Rubymar, crippled by fire from Houthi rebels last month, sank in international waters in the Red Sea on Saturday, Yemeni government officials announced. The ship's sinking "will cause an environmental catastrophe" affecting Yemen's territorial waters and the Red Sea, Yemen's ad hoc Crisis Management Cell said in a statement reported by Turkey's Anadolu Agency. The vessel was carrying 41,000 tons of fertilizer, and its sinking raises worsens what the U.S. Central Command called an environmental disaster caused by the "unprovoked and reckless attack by Iran-backed Houthi terrorists." The ship was attacked in a missile strike launched by Houthi militants on Feb. 18, which caused a large oil slick and concerns that its cargo of fertilizer would create a catastrophe. The Rubymar took on water following the attack and was awaiting a tow to the Saudi Arabian port of Jeddah before sinking overnight. Its crew had abandoned the ship following the missile attack. The Houthi militants are based in Yemen and are targeting cargo ships owned or operated by Israeli firms or that are carrying supplies to or from Israel in the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea since the onset of the war in Gaza. Joint strikes by the United States and Britain against Houthi targets recently caused the Houthis to declare all British and U.S. ships to be legitimate targets for military action. After the Rubymar was attacked, officials in and around the ports of Aden and Djibouti refused to accept it.