ICJ to rule on Germany’s support for Israel on Tuesday

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) will rule next Tuesday on Nicaragua’s request to demand that the court impose a series of measures to demand that Germany stop giving political, financial and military support to Israel in the face of the “campaign of destruction.” “of the Palestinian people.

The court in The Hague will hold a public session at 3:00 p.m. local time (1:00 p.m. GMT) in which the president of the court, Judge Nawaf Salam, will read the decision, the court said in a statement this Friday.

On April 8, Nicaragua asked the ICJ to demand that Germany “cease providing” political, financial and military support to Israel. “in the face of its campaign of destruction” of the Palestinian people, as it violates the Genocide Convention, and urged Berlin to differentiate its commitment to the “Jewish people” from the “Israeli Government.”

Nicaragua claims that Germany is violating in particular the 1948 UN Genocide Convention, created after the Holocaust.

Furthermore, that same country denounces that Berlin facilitates the commission of genocide in Gaza with the withdrawal of its funding to the United Nations Palestine Refugee Agency (UNRWA).

For its part, Germany affirmed before the highest court of the UN on April 10 that Israel’s security is “at the center” of his foreign policy and rejected Nicaragua’s accusations of facilitating a “genocide” in Gaza with its sale of weapons to the Jewish State.

The ICJ was created to resolve disputes between countries and has become a key player in the war between Israel and Hamas, which began with the October 7 attacks.