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ICJ begins hearing on Israel's aid obligations
Apr 28th, 2025 at 9:38pm
 
The International Court of Justice in The Hague began a five-day public hearing today to consider Israel’s legal obligations regarding the activities and presence of international organizations in the occupied Palestinian territories.

This week, 38 countries will present their arguments, including the United States, China, France, Russia, and Saudi Arabia, in addition to the Arab League, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, and the African Union.

This move comes in response to a resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly in December 2024, proposed by Norway, which called on the ICJ to issue an advisory opinion outlining Israel's obligations to facilitate the delivery of urgent humanitarian supplies to Palestinians and ensure they are not obstructed.

UN representative Elinor Hammarskjold, a Swedish lawyer and diplomat who has served as the UN’s undersecretary-general for Legal Affairs and its Legal Counsel since 2025, opened proceedings at the ICJ. Some of her main points:

No humanitarian aid or commercial goods have been allowed into Gaza since March 2, which has had devastating humanitarian consequences. The secretary-general continues to call for humanitarian aid to reach all people in need.

International humanitarian law obligations apply to the conduct of Israel with regards to the occupied civilian territory, which includes respecting the decisions of the representatives of the Palestinian people to receive basic goods and services from the UN entities to fully enjoy their right to self-determination.

At least 295 UN personnel have died since the conflict began.

UN entities provide vital services and development aid in the Palestinian territories.

Israel must administer the territory for the benefit of the local population, facilitate relief schemes, support institutions for children’s care and education, and maintain medical and hospital services, including those established by the UN.



Irish lawyer Blinne Nessa Áine Ní Ghrálaigh representing Palestine made these points:


Israel’s actions are not only inhumane but genocidal, as concluded by the UN Commission of Inquiry and broadly agreed upon by the human rights community.

Although separate proceedings address Israel’s responsibility for genocide, these proceedings concern Israel’s obligations to provide aid in a situation where Palestinians face a real and imminent risk of genocide.

Despite Israel’s objections, the court has full authority to advise on Israel’s obligations under international law, particularly regarding the protection of Palestinians.

Given the serious risk of a violation of fundamental international norms (like the prohibition of genocide), the court must declare that there is an obligation, especially on UN member states, to end such a situation.

Israel continues to block UN-mandated investigatory bodies from Gaza while destroying and burying evidence of its crimes.

Israel’s violations of obligations under the 1946 Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem include forcible entry into UN schools, its seizure and often violent shuttering of UN premises and its failure to protect them from attack by Israeli civilians.

They also include Israel’s obstruction or prohibition of the movement of Palestinian UN staff and the access by international UN staff to the occupied Palestinian territory in Gaza, where Israel’s violations include its obstruction of UN aid supplies, goods and equipment into and throughout the territory and its attacks on UN food stores, distribution facilities and humanitarian convoys.

Violations also include Israel’s use of UN premises as military bases and its violent, lethal attacks on UN schools, shelters and healthcare facilities, which have been a feature of every large-scale military assault on Gaza since at least 2009.




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Reply #1 - Apr 28th, 2025 at 11:28pm
 
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A Gaza City bakery makes sweet pastries.
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Reply #2 - Apr 28th, 2025 at 11:37pm
 
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Preparing pizzas at Thailandy Restaurant, Gaza City.
Instagram stories timestamp: From the last 20 minutes, today 23 Apr '25
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Reply #3 - Apr 28th, 2025 at 11:44pm
 
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Abu Saleh shows us what's on the menu at Palmera Restaurant, Gaza City - barbecued fried fish.
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Weird when the Israelis were providing food and shelter to genuine refugees... I suppose the panty-waists in the UN want to force Israel to feed the Hamas fighters... humanitarian aid, you know.

There have been countless photos of 'starving' Gazans, men, women and children - all sporting beer bellies and well padded - and no - it's not from vitamin deficiency.

When is the ICJ going to prosecute Hamas for the attacks on 7/10?...   Find them guilty in absentia of war crimes, including making aggressive war and attacks on civilians ... and send out a big Fat WAH against them... Albo could provide a damp lettuce leaf...

The UN is still capable of using a Fat WAH you know!!!  Maybe even a gum boot!

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Baronvonrort wrote on Apr 28th, 2025 at 11:28pm:
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A Gaza City bakery makes sweet pastries.
TikTok timestamp: 1 day ago
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https://x.com/imshin/status/1916556947844644931


If you think there's no aid shortage then you're severely deluded.
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Grappler Truth Teller wrote Yesterday at 12:00am:
There have been countless photos of 'starving' Gazans, men, women and children - all sporting beer bellies and well padded - and no - it's not from vitamin deficiency.



Israeli hasbara obviously, like the Hamas 'rape story'.

Look around:


'End This War Crime': HRW Says Israel Is Starving Children to Death in Gaza
https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-starving-gaza-children

The hunger killing Gaza’s children has a clear cause that few are willing to name out loud
https://www.rt.com/news/593994-israel-gaza-starvation-massacre/


Even many reports from the MSM:

Washington Post: Images of a starving Palestinian boy went viral. The attention saved him
https://www.yahoo.com/news/images-starving-palestinian-boy-went-121242306.html

In the ruins of Gaza, children are starving to death and there's no cease-fire in sight
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/israel-hamas-war-children-starving-famine-war...

UN special rapporteur on the right to food Michael Fakhri says denial of food is war crime and constitutes ‘a situation of genocide’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/27/un-israel-food-starvation-palestin...

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Depending on the ICJ's ruling, Israel may find itself suspended from the UN, IHL lawyers say.

Just like South Africa was in 1974.
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Reply #8 - Yesterday at 9:04pm
 
The lawyer for the State of Palestine at the ICJ said yesterday that this is a 'continuation of the Nakba', which began around this time in 1948, the defining incident being Deir Yassin, where bloodthirsty Jews slaughtered over 200 innocent villagers 77 years ago this month:


Like a vicious beast with an insatiable bloodlust, he shot a bullet into her neck and then sliced her abdomen open with the welding knife, until it turned into a bloody pulp from the fury of razor-sharp ravaging teeth. 

Twenty-year-old Salhiyeh Eid was nine months pregnant. When a 15-year-old cousin, Aisha Radwan, rushed to extricate the unborn infant from Salhiyeh’s eviscerated womb, the Jewish terrorist killed her, too.

Earlier that morning, armed members of Zionist terrorist militias, the Stern Gang and the Irgun Zvai Leumi, invaded the pastoral village of Deir Yassin and slaughtered anyone with a beating pulse. They beheaded babies, burned a child alive in the communal oven, and committed acts of sexual assault and systematic rape.

During the massacre, Zionist terrorists bayoneted the abdomens of 25 pregnant women, forcibly taking out their unborn fetuses while these women were still alive to witness the indescribable horror as they took their last excruciating breaths. They murdered 60 women and girls, mutilated their bodies, butchered nursing babies, and maimed 52 children before decapitating them right before their mothers’ eyes.

Zionist terrorists took surviving women and girls in the village, stripped them of their clothes, and paraded them along King George Avenue in the Jewish quarters of Jerusalem, where spectators subjected them to mockery and insults and threw stones at them.

The day following the massacre, Jacques de Reynier, the Swiss representative of the International Red Cross, led the first party to the site of the massacre and bore witness to the carnage. On April 14, the British Assistant Inspector General of the Criminal Investigation Division, Richard Catling, visited several homes in the neighboring village of Silwan and collected the testimonies of women who survived the Deir Yassin massacre.

In his personal memoirs, published two years later, Reynier wrote:

  "A total of more than 200 dead, men, women, and children. About 150 cadavers have not been preserved inside the village in view of the danger represented by the bodies' decomposition. They have been gathered, transported some distance, and placed in a large trough (I have not been able to establish if this is a pit, a grain silo, or a large natural excavation). ... [One body was] a woman who must have been eight months pregnant, hit in the stomach, with powder burns on her dress indicating she'd been shot point-blank."

He wrote that he had encountered a "cleaning-up team" when he arrived at the village:

  "The gang [the Irgun detachment] was wearing country uniforms with helmets. All of them were young, some even adolescents, men and women, armed to the teeth: revolvers, machine-guns, hand grenades, and also cutlasses in their hands, most of them still blood-stained. A beautiful young girl, with criminal eyes, showed me hers still dripping with blood; she displayed it like a trophy. This was the 'cleaning up' team, that was obviously performing its task very conscientiously."

Physical evidence collected through the medical examinations of survivors conducted by a doctor and nurse from the Government Hospital in Jerusalem corroborated these reports. The following is Catling’s account:

    “There is no doubt that many sexual atrocities were committed by the attacking [Zionists]. Many young schoolgirls were raped and later slaughtered. Old women were also molested. One story is current concerning a case in which a young girl was literally torn into two. Many infants were also butchered and killed.”

A Mossad intelligence officer arrived in Deir Yassin to the sight of the Irgun and Stern Gang members incinerating bodies:

    “We witnessed a most horrible and dreadful scene…. [Irgun] men were throwing Arab corpses into a house from the roof, while a huge fire was burning. It was really like a crematorium. Besides that horror, I saw many wood fires along the path on which corpses were burning. The stench in the air was unbearable.”

In 1982, the then-commander of the Haganah, Zvi Ankoi, described the atrocities he witnessed at the scene of the Deir Yassin massacre:

    “I saw cut-off genitalia and women’s crushed stomachs. It was direct murder. Soldiers shot everyone they saw, including women and children. Parents begged commanders to stop the slaughter, to please stop shooting.”


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http://britishpalestinepolice.org.uk/polhist54.html

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/04/the-deir-yassin-massacre-reminds-us-every-zionist...

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