ICJ rejects measures to prevent Germany from supporting Israel, as requested by Nicaragua

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) refused this Tuesday to impose precautionary measures Germany stop giving political, financial and military support to Israel in the face of the “campaign of destruction” of the Palestinian people, as requested Nicaragua.

“Based on factual information and the legal arguments presented by the parties, the court concluded that, for the time being, the circumstances are not such as to require the exercise of its power under article 41 of the statute to appoint provisional measures.”appointed the president of the court, judge Nawaf Salamwhen reading the decision.

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salam explained that the court, which remains “deeply concerned about the catastrophic living conditions of Palestinians”adopted this decision by 15 votes in favor and one against.

On April 8, Nicaragua requested the ICJ demand Germany “stop providing support“political, financial and military to Israel” in the face of its campaign of destruction “of the Palestinian people, as in its opinion it violates the Genocide Convention, and urged Berlin to differentiate its commitment to”Jewish city” of “Israeli government”.

Nicaragua Ensure that Germany is violating, in particular, the UN Convention on Genocide1948, created after the Holocaust.

Furthermore, it denounces that Berlin facilitates the commission of genocide in Gaza by withdrawing its funding from the United Nations Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).

For your part, Germany declared before the highest court in the UN on April 10 that Israel’s security is “at the center” of its foreign policy and rejected accusations of Nicaragua to be facilitating a “genocide” in Link with your weapons sales Hebrew state.

The court highlighted today that, according to Germany98% of weapons licenses granted since last October concern other military equipment and not weapons of war.

In any case, the judges considered “It is particularly important to remind all States” of their international obligations in relation to the transfer of weapons to parties to an armed conflict in order to “avoid the risk that such weapons could be used” violate the Geneva Convention or the Genocide Convention.

“All these obligations fall on Germanyas a State party to the conventions, in its supply of weapons to Israel“, they pointed out.

With regard to aid to UNRWAthe court stressed that these contributions are, in any case, voluntary and that, according to the information provided by Berlin, it should not make any new payments in the weeks following the announcement of its decision to suspend its financing.

The court stated that the decision given in the present case do not prejudge in no way the question of the jurisdiction of the court to judge the merits of the matter or any question relating to the admissibility of the petition or the merits itself, and which nullifies the right of the governments of Nicaragua and Germany to present arguments in relation to these questions.

O ICJ was created to resolve disputes between countries and became a key actor in the war between Israel and Hamasthat began with the October 7 attacks.

Source: Elcomercio

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