The Australian | AFP | 24.05.24
Like all International Legal Rules Israel will simply ignore them if they don’t support Genocide and Mass Murder and guess what – the USA and Britain will back them and also ignore the Law – Mark
Israel is bracing for the worst as the UN’s top court prepares to rule on a request by South Africa to order Israel to implement a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
South Africa has petitioned the International Court of Justice for emergency measures to order Israel to “cease its military operations in the Gaza Strip” including in Rafah city, where it is pressing an offensive.
Multiple Israeli media outlets report that Jerusalem was preparing for the ruling and was concerned that it would include an order to either stop the operation in Rafah or stop the war entirely.
However Israel’s Channel 12 cited unnamed officials as saying Jerusalem does not intend to uphold such a ruling.Speaking ahead of the decision, a government spokesperson told Reuters: “No power on Earth will stop Israel from protecting its citizens and going after Hamas in Gaza.”
The rulings of the ICJ, which judges on disputes between states, are binding, but it has no power to enforce them — it has ordered Russia to halt its invasion of Ukraine to no avail, for example.
But a ruling against Israel would increase the international legal pressure after the International Criminal Court’s top prosecutor said Monday he was seeking arrest warrants for top Israeli and Hamas leaders.
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