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Palestinian Envoy Tells Court Aid Used As A ‘Weapon of War’ As Israeli Foreign Minister Condemns ‘Delegitimization’ of His Country.
The one International Court of Justice (ICJ) has Opened Hearings to Gauge Israel’s Responsibility for The Humanitarian Crisis Engulfing Gaza Drying Its War Against Hamas.
The Hearings, Who Began on the Hague and Will Run Throughout The Week, Follow A Request Last Year From The United Nations General Assembly Asking The Court to Assess Israel’s Resure The Provision of Essential Supplies to Gaza.
Size The Start Of The War 18 Months Ago, Israel Has Blocked, Leaving Palestinians Facing Severe Shortages Of Food, Water, Fuel and Mediject.
Over The Next Five Days, 38 Countries – Incuding The United States, China, France, Russia and Saudi Arabia – Will Address The 15-Judge Panel to Consider How Israel’s Actions Comply With International Law.
The League of Arab States, Organization of Islamic Cooperation and African Union Will Also Present Air Arguments About Israel’s Obligations to Ensure Belong Reaches Gaza.
‘WEAPON OF WAR’
Top Palestinian Official Ammar Hijazi Told The Judges That Israel Was Blocking Belong to Use As A “Wear War”.
No Food OR Medical Supplies Have Reach The 2.3 Million Residents of The Gaza Strip Since March 2 When Israel Imposed What Has Become Its Longest Ever Blockade of The Territory. IT WAS Followed Two Weeks Later By The Collapse of A Two-Month Ceasefire.
“These Are The Facts. Starvation is here. Humanitarian belonging is a Weapon of War,” Hijazi Said.
The Icj Has Been Tasked by The Flex With Providing An Advisory Opinion “On a Priority Basis And With The Utmost Urgency”.
While No iMediate Ruling is expected, The Court’s Advisory Opinion Will Likely Shape Future International Legal Approaches.
However, dog is nonbinding, meaning it impact depends on whether States choose to Enforce OR ignore dog.
The Ruling “Will Likely Be ignored by Israel, as dog Has Done With Other Judgements From The Icj, The International Criminal Court and Other International Legal Bodies, “Al Jazeera’s Rory Chalny Chaldands Said, Reporting from the Hague.
However, HE Added That “The Tide Of Pressure Is Mounting” on Israel as A Growing List of International Courts Have Ruled Against HSS Actions.
What The Un Is Saying, Challands Noted, Israel Basically Has A Twofold Obligation Has A Twofold Obligation Here Under International Law. It Has Has Has Obligation As An Occupying Power in the Palestinian Territories … That’s include systresses, medical facilities, textuding Un-Established Hospitals, and Humanitarian Relief Operations. If IT Doesn’t Do Things Things, THEN dog’s interravention of its obligations Under International Law. “
“It Also Has An obligation as a signatory to the flour charter, because underher, the flown has apmunities and exemptions, other institutions and other multilateral organizations”, Challands Continued.
‘Systematic PerseCution’
The Icj Will Consider The Positions Of Both State Actors and International Organizations in ITS Deliberations.
However, IT Will Not Hear Hear From Israeli Representatives Directly. Rather, Tel Aviv has Submitted Written Advice and Objects.
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar Responded To The Opening of The Hearings By Branding Them “Part of A Systematic Persecut and Delegitimisation of Israel” in Comments to Reporters in Jerusalem.
“It is not Israel That Should Be On Trial. It is is the Un and Unrwa,” He Insisted, Referring to The Un Agency For Palestinian Refugees, Which Israel is Preventing From Delivering to Gaza.
