ICJ orders Israel to ensure delivery of urgent humanitarian aid to Gaza | Latest updates on Gaza crisis

2024-03-29 00:10:11

Displaced Palestinians gather to collect food donated by a charity group before breakfast on the fourth day of the holy month of Ramadan in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip.

Photo: EFE – HAITHAM IMAD

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) this Thursday ordered Israel to guarantee without delay the delivery of “urgent humanitarian aid” to Gaza, in view of the worsening conditions in this Palestinian territory where it stated that there is “famine.”

Israel must take all necessary and effective measures to ensure, without delay, the unhindered delivery of “basic services and urgent humanitarian aid” to Gaza, declared the ICJ, the highest UN court based in The Hague.

The court noted that Palestinians in Gaza no longer face the risk of famine, but rather that there is “an emerging famine” in this territory.

The war in Gaza broke out on October 7 due to the attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in southern Israel, where its fighters killed some 1,160 people, mostly civilians, according to a balance based on official Israeli figures.

In response, Israel promised to “annihilate” Hamas and launched an offensive that has already left 32,552 dead in Gaza, according to the Islamist movement that has ruled this Palestinian territory since 2007.

At the end of December, South Africa went to the ICJ arguing that the offensive in Gaza violates the Convention for the Prevention of Genocide and before the Pretoria Court argued that Israel commits “genocide” in Gaza.

In a ruling in mid-January, the court ordered the country to prevent any acts of genocide in the territory and allow the entry of humanitarian aid.

South Africa called for new measures a few weeks later, with the aim of legally putting pressure on Israel not to launch a ground offensive against Rafah, in southern Gaza. The highest judicial instance of the UN rejected the request.

South Africa then appealed again in March, this time seeking injunctive relief over what it described as “widespread famine” resulting from the Israeli offensive.

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