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Date: March 29, 2024 at 10:23:18
From: old timer , [DNS_Address]
Subject: Top UN court orders Israel to allow food and medical aid into Gaza |
URL: Top UN court orders Israel to allow food and medical aid into Gaza |
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Top UN court orders Israel to allow food and medical aid into Gaza
9 hours ago
By Christy Cooney,
BBC News
In a unanimous decision, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) said
Israel had to act "without delay" to allow the "provision... of urgently
needed basic services and humanitarian assistance".
This follows warnings that famine could hit Gaza within weeks.
Israel has called allegations it is blocking aid "wholly unfounded".
Giving its response to the court order, the Israeli foreign ministry said it
was continuing "to promote new initiatives, and to expand existing ones"
to allow a continuous flow of aid into Gaza "by land, air and sea", working
with the UN and others.
It said that Hamas was to blame for the situation in Gaza and for starting
the war.
The latest ruling by the court in The Hague comes after South Africa
asked it to bolster an order issued to Israel in January to take all measures
to prevent genocidal acts in Gaza.
South Africa said it had an obligation to act to prevent genocide as a
signatory of the UN's 1948 Genocide Convention.
The country has been highly critical of Israel's military operation in Gaza
and its governing African National Congress (ANC) has a long history of
solidarity with the Palestinian cause.
Although orders issued by the ICJ are legally binding, the court lacks the
power to enforce them. The UN Security Council is the only UN body
which can introduce measures to try to ensure compliance.
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The ICJ's ruling comes after a report by the Integrated Food Security
Phase Classification Global Initiative, which is run by the World Food
Programme and others, was published last week - warning that a
"catastrophic" situation was developing in Gaza.
It said that all of the 2.2 million people in Gaza were "facing high levels of
acute food insecurity" and that famine was projected to hit the north of
the territory before the end of May.
Famine occurs when a country has such a severe food shortage that its
population faces acute undernourishment, starvation, or death.
In its ruling, the ICJ said Gaza was "no longer facing only a risk of famine"
but "famine is setting in" and that, according to UN observers, 31 people,
including 27 children, had already died of malnutrition and dehydration.
The court also noted comments by Volker Türk, the UN's high
commissioner for human rights, who said last week that the "situation of
hunger, starvation and famine" was "a result of Israel's extensive
restrictions on the entry and distribution of humanitarian aid and
commercial goods, displacement of most of the population, as well as the
destruction of crucial civilian infrastructure".
Mr Türk recently told the BBC that there was a "plausible" case that Israel
was using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza and that, if intent was
proven, this would amount to a war crime.
The ICJ said Israel had to "take all necessary and effective measures to
ensure, without delay, in full co-operation with the United Nations, the
unhindered provision at scale... of urgently needed basic services and
humanitarian assistance".
The aid most needed included food, water, electricity, fuel, shelter and
clothing as well as hygiene products and medical supplies, it said.
In recent months long queues of aid trucks have repeatedly formed as
they wait to enter Gaza from Egypt, and accusations have been levelled at
Israel that it is subjecting the deliveries to complex and arbitrary checks.
Israel has also said that Hamas takes much of the aid that enters Gaza and
accused the UN of failing to distribute what is left to the civilian
population.
The current conflict began after the 7 October attack, which saw Hamas-
led gunmen storm across the border into Israel, killing around 1,200
people and taking more than 250 others hostage.
Of those taken, about 130 remain unaccounted for, at least 34 of whom
are presumed dead.
Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry says Israel's retaliatory campaign has
killed at least 32,623 people. Earlier this month, US Defence Secretary
Lloyd Austin said that, of those killed, more than 25,000 were women and
children.
Israel has vowed to press on with its mission to eliminate Hamas, despite
the UN Security Council passing a resolution calling for an immediate
ceasefire earlier this week.
Israel's military recently launched another raid on al-Shifa hospital -
Gaza's biggest - where thousands of displaced people are sheltering.
Al-Amal hospital in southern Gaza was taken out of service earlier this
week after Israeli troops forced medics and patients to evacuate, the
Palestine Red Crescent Society reported.
There have also been repeated Israeli air strikes on what it says are
Hamas targets throughout Gaza.
Israel has threatened to launch an offensive in the southern city of Rafah,
where more than 1.5 million Palestinians are sheltering.
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Date: March 29, 2024 at 11:31:53
From: chatillon, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Lot of good it's going to do.(NT) |
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Date: March 29, 2024 at 12:16:02
From: ao, [DNS_Address]
Subject: And to think, all Hamas has to do is surrender. |
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And all the suffering would be over. All the death, pau. But no, idiots in
America scream at the folks that were attacked as if it's their fault.
As I said.. idiots.. fucking morons who do no more than indulge in their
miserable emotions without a thought.. not a morsel of a thought.. as to
what the fuck is actually going on. Idiots that support Iran.. what a fucking
mess.
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Date: March 29, 2024 at 14:13:05
From: old timer, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: And to think, all Hamas has to do is surrender. |
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the continued slaughter and the mass starvation of everyone in gaza is
most definitely israel’s fault. it’s time for the slaughter of women and
children and mass starvation in gaza to end. let go of your hate and have
empathy for those dying in large numbers
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Date: March 29, 2024 at 14:34:00
From: ao, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: And to think, all Hamas has to do is surrender. |
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Still batting for the other side, eh? I can't say I am surprised, but why not
move to Tehran? You'd be so much happier amongst the mullahs.. enslaving
women, stoning those you don't like to death. It must be so hard living
among the heathens where we strive for peace.. I'm sorry. and do hope you
get the relief you need. Mary doesn't help, eh? Too bad.
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Date: March 29, 2024 at 16:51:21
From: old timer , [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: And to think, all Hamas has to do is surrender. |
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get help dude, you are one sick puppy
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Date: March 29, 2024 at 15:03:04
From: akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: And to think, all Hamas has to do is surrender. |
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you sound a tad emotionally reactive. Having a bad day?
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