• Court publishes ruling in full.

The ICJ, the UN’s top court, has just published its ruling in which it ordered Israel to immediately halt its military offensive and other actions in Rafah, in southern Gaza.

• It’s exact wording was that Israel must “immediately halt its military offensive, and any other action in the Rafah governorate, which may inflict on the Palestinian group in Gaza conditions of life that could bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part”.

The ICJ has made several orders including for Israel to:

• halt military operation in Rafah

• open the Rafah border crossing with Egypt for the entry of humanitarian aid at scale
• ensure access to Gaza for investigators and fact-finding missions
• report to the court within a month on its progress in applying these measures

Source: BBC

ICJ said it saw no evidence of adequate humanitarian access for Palestinians

Thirteen of the 15 ICJ judges agreed that the situation in Rafah is a red line. Words like ‘exceptionally dire’ were used to describe the situation.

The main judge said 800,000 are displaced, and that he doesn’t believe Israel’s word that they are provided safety and humanitarian access. He said there was no evidence of that.

That’s why the court has now made a very strong order that Israel should immediately stop its offensive and military operation in Rafah and withdraw its troops from there. He also made a ruling on border crossings, that they must be reopened as soon as possible to get humanitarian aid in.

Interestingly, he said that observers from the United Nations have to get access as soon as possible to make sure that no evidence of any possible war crimes will be disappearing.

Source: Al Jazeera

Conditions have been met for new emergency measures: ICJ

The ICJ has said that the current situation entails further risks to irreparable damage to the rights of the people in Gaza.

It added that conditions have been met for new emergency measures in Israel’s genocide case.

Source: Al Jazeera