The measures were issued on January 26; However, it does not consider it necessary to demand additional measures, as South Africa has requested due to the situation in Rafah.
The international Court of Justice (ICJ) of the UN demanded this Friday that Israel “immediate and effective” implementation of the precautionary measures issued on January 26 to prevent genocide in the Gaza Strip. However, the ICJ has does not consider it necessary to require additional measures to Israel, as requested by South Africa due to the situation in Rafah.
In its decision, communicated today to South Africa and Israel, the Court noted that the latest events in the Gaza Strip, and in particular Rafah, “would exponentially increase what is already a problem. humanitarian nightmare with incalculable regional consequences,” said United Nations Secretary-General Antònio Guterres before the UN General Assembly on February 7.
“This dangerous situation requires the immediate and effective implementation of the interim measures indicated by the Court in its decision of January 26, 2024, which apply throughout the Gaza Strip, including Rafah, and does not require the indication of additional interim measures,” he noted. ICJ in a letter to the parties.
For this reason, the Court has emphasized that “the State of Israel continues obliged to fully fulfill its obligations under the Genocide Convention and with the said order, including guaranteeing the safety of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.”
The International Court of Justice made this decision in the case concerning the Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip, presented by South Africa against Israel, after considering the request of the Pretoria authorities on the 12th and the comments sent by Israel this Thursday.
The government of Israel declared the day before South Africa’s urgent request for the UN IJC to investigate its decision to expand its military operations in the south of the Gaza Strip is “inadequate” and seeks “inappropriate use” of this body’s provisional measures procedure.
The South African request reflected ‘deep concern’ because ‘the unprecedented military offensive against Rafahannounced by the State of Israel, has already caused and will result in further large-scale attacks, massacres, damage and destruction,” which would be a violation of the Genocide Convention and the precautionary measures that the International Court of Justice demanded of Israel on January 26. .
The Israeli government, in turn, argued that South Africa did not contribute “no legal or factual basis” for the modification of these provisional measures and considers that this country “essentially intends to relitigate the case on which the International Court of Justice has already ruled”, without “any reason” to conclude that the situation causing the provisional measures justified has since changed.
Source: EITB
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