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.

  • davepleasebehave@lemmy.worldEnglish
    994·
    10 months ago

    what a surprise that a genocidal regime refuses to comply with anti genocide orders.

    Israel is hopeless…

      • davepleasebehave@lemmy.worldEnglish
        375·
        10 months ago

        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.

        • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldEnglish
          106·
          10 months ago

          there is no significant protest in Israel against the genocide

          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.

  • OccamsTeapot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    615·
    10 months ago

    “The Israeli government has simply ignored the court’s ruling, and in some ways even intensified its repression, including further blocking lifesaving aid.”

    So what are we going to do about it? Because it better fucking not be absolutely nothing. History will not be kind to us for our response to this.

    If Israel is above the law, why not Putin? Why not Kim Jong Un?

    • trebuchet@lemmy.mlEnglish
      202·
      10 months ago

      Because those guys are on our team and those guys are on the other team.

    • Muyal_Hix@lemmy.worldEnglish
      171·
      10 months ago

      “History will not be kind to us”

      I mean, the US also supported the Guatemalan genocide and appartheid South Africa, yet nobody gives a crap.

    • Doof@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      10 months ago

      History will be fine with us since we will be making the text books

    • TokenBoomer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1746·
      10 months ago

      We’re going to vote for Joe Biden, even though he has facilitated this genocide, because somehow Trump would be worse than 10,000 dead children. /s

      • Visstix@lemmy.worldEnglish
        344·
        10 months ago

        Trump would be worse yes. Cause the Palestine situation would most likely get worse. And a lot of other things as well, like Ukraine. I’m not sure what’s so difficult about it.

        • TokenBoomer@lemmy.worldEnglish
          832·
          10 months ago

          One is our present reality, the other is a hypothetical future. That’s what makes it so difficult.

          • ghostdoggtv@lemmy.worldEnglish
            5·
            10 months ago

            It’s not as difficult as your presentation makes it sound. This should be a lay-up for the Grand Old Party. I could accept a moderately conservative truly moral alternative to cosigning Israel’s strategic suicide. Instead the party heads are too scared of the base (must not have any guns) to put their true enemy in prison where he belongs.

            • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldEnglish
              71·
              10 months ago

              I could accept a moderately conservative truly moral alternative

              Too bad no such thing has existed in American presidential elections since the 70s at the latest.

                • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  2·
                  10 months ago

                  Yup, all of which are of course thoroughly immoral hypocrites. The “trickle down” fiscal policies and the ramping up of the oppressive “war on drugs” were immoral as hell too.

            • TokenBoomer@lemmy.worldEnglish
              98·
              10 months ago

              If this election isn’t difficult for you, maybe meditate on why that is. 30,000 dead. 10,000 children. If Trump had done this, people would be apoplectic. Instead, we get rationalizations on why Biden is necessary. This is not an easy choice for me. And I’m not ashamed to admit it.

              • ghostdoggtv@lemmy.worldEnglish
                53·
                10 months ago

                False dichotomy. People are apoplectic and that’s why the rationalizations are happening. I’m not ashamed to admit it.

                • John_McMurray@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  53·
                  10 months ago

                  He means it would be covered entirely differently in the media and you know he ain’t wrong, that’s probably why you’re deflecting instead of responding honestly.

                • TokenBoomer@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  12·
                  10 months ago

                  I have a difficult time responding to discordant logic. My mind doesn’t work that way.

          • zerog_bandit@lemmy.worldEnglish
            310·
            10 months ago

            It’s not difficult. Let me break it down for the smooth brained repubs with fewer brain cells than teeth:

            Orange Man want sell guns. Orange Man want brown people die.

            Biden use political pressure. Biden try slow down Israel.

            Pootin want orange Man. Pootin want use conflict to divide left.

            • TokenBoomer@lemmy.worldEnglish
              118·
              10 months ago

              With 30,000 dead Palestinians and 10,000 of them children. I’m not sure I trust your phrenology.

        • underisk@lemmy.mlEnglish
          95·
          10 months ago

          If you want to do this gross tragedy Olympics shit you should at least consider that there are around 600k people in Gaza and over 300 million in America.

          To make this argument honestly, you should either normalize the numbers against population (spoiler Biden is about 10x worse this way) or compare all the deaths worldwide that could be traced to either one. I suggest you actually do neither of those.

        • John_McMurray@lemmy.worldEnglish
          54·
          10 months ago

          You would have to be literally retarded to believe who the president was affected that to any great degree.

      • Atin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        105·
        10 months ago

        How about the 1.2 millions Americans that died from covid while Trump down played a global pandemic?

  • affiliate@lemmy.worldEnglish
    472·
    10 months ago

    i’m sure a little more paper work will fix this. we just need to find the right forms

    • doctorcrimson@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      10 months ago

      Technically, now that the Genocide ruling has come through, a third party invasion of Israel is justified and the invading nation can sue anybody who tries to embargo them over it.

  • Lord Wiggle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    10 months ago

    Right wing extremists do whatever the fuck they want and don’t care about the judicial system. Haven’t we learned that from WW II?

  • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    253·
    10 months ago

    The mechanism that prevents Israel’s genocide, Russia’s invasion, Chinese expansionism, North Korean brinksmanship, and American taunting and provocative Imperialism is the same: international law.

    As long as the US as the military hegemon rejects international law and courts: efforts to restrict or prevent any of the above will ultimately fail.

  • yamanii@lemmy.worldEnglish
    232·
    10 months ago

    Who’s gonna make them stop? There are no war crimes if you are an US ally.

  • nexusband@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    10 months ago

    So, if i remember correctly, doesn’t that mean Israel could get the status of state deprived?

  • John_McMurray@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    10 months ago

    Did Israel even ever sign the treaty establishing this court? I’m not pro Israel but i feel this is misleading.

    • Iceman@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      10 months ago

      They withdrew from the ICC International Criminal Court

      This ruling is from the ICJ International Court of justice with they are members off.

      They represented themselves in the court, which would have been absurd if they didn’t recognize it in the first place.