{"id":1795,"date":"2024-03-29T00:07:24","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T00:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/?p=1795"},"modified":"2024-03-29T17:11:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T17:11:55","slug":"world-court-orders-israel-to-take-action-to-address-gaza-famine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/world-court-orders-israel-to-take-action-to-address-gaza-famine\/","title":{"rendered":"World Court orders Israel to take action to address Gaza famine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"swift-in-viewport\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Judges at the International Court of Justice, on Thursday, unanimously ordered Israel to take all the necessary and effective action to ensure basic food supplies\u00a0arrive\u00a0without delay to the Palestinian population in Gaza,\u00a0<i>Reuters<\/i>\u00a0reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"swift-in-viewport\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The\u00a0ICJ\u00a0said the Palestinians in Gaza face worsening conditions of life, and\u00a0famine\u00a0and starvation are spreading.<\/p>\n<p class=\"swift-in-viewport\">The Court observes that Palestinians in Gaza are no longer facing only a risk of famine (\u2026) but that famine is setting in the judges said in their order.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"SiW9Y0V9dGY\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ICJ orders Israel to take action to address famine in Gaza\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SiW9Y0V9dGY?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p class=\"swift-in-viewport\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The new measures were requested by South Africa as part of its ongoing\u00a0case\u00a0that accuses Israel of state-led genocide in Gaza.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"swift-in-viewport\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">In January the ICJ, also known as the World Court,\u00a0ordered\u00a0Israel to refrain from any acts that could fall under the Genocide Convention and to ensure its troops commit no genocidal acts against Palestinians in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"swift-in-viewport\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Thursday\u2019s order, the Court reaffirmed the January measures, but added Israel must take action to ensure unhindered provision of basic services and humanitarian assistance including food, water and electricity as well as medical supplies and medical care to Palestinians throughout Gaza.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"julvuqtB29Q\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ICJ orders Israel to prevent famine in Gaza, increase aid entry capacity: Prof. John Stremlau\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/julvuqtB29Q?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p class=\"swift-in-viewport\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The judges added that this could be done<\/p>\n<p class=\"swift-in-viewport\"><strong>by increasing the capacity and number of land crossing points and maintaining them open for as long as necessary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"swift-in-viewport\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Court ordered Israel to submit a report in a month after the order to detail how it had given effect to the ruling.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"eQlMo2FJYzo\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ICJ Orders Israel to Allow Humanitarian Aid to Gaza, Israel to Resume Talks with Washington on M...\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eQlMo2FJYzo?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judges at the International Court of Justice, on Thursday, unanimously ordered Israel to take all the necessary and effective action to ensure basic food supplies\u00a0arrive\u00a0without delay to the Palestinian population in Gaza,\u00a0Reuters\u00a0reports. The\u00a0ICJ\u00a0said the Palestinians in Gaza face worsening conditions of life, and\u00a0famine\u00a0and starvation are spreading. The Court observes that Palestinians in Gaza are no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,41,66],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-asia-americas","8":"category-middle-east","9":"category-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1797,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions\/1797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}