{"id":52812,"date":"2024-01-26T22:05:04","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T22:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/israel-must-prevent-genocidal-acts-in-gaza-un-court-daily-times\/"},"modified":"2024-01-26T22:05:04","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T22:05:04","slug":"israel-must-prevent-genocidal-acts-in-gaza-un-court-daily-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/israel-must-prevent-genocidal-acts-in-gaza-un-court-daily-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel must prevent genocidal acts in Gaza: UN court – Daily Times"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"The top UN court stopped short Friday of ordering a ceasefire in Gaza but demanded that Israel try to contain death and damage in its military offensive in the tiny coastal enclave.<\/p>\n

South Africa, which brought the case, had asked for the court to order Israel to halt its operation.<\/p>\n

The United Nations\u2019 top court decided on Friday not to throw out genocide charges against Israel for its military offensive in Gaza, as part of a preliminary decision in a case that goes to the core of one of the world\u2019s most intractable conflicts.<\/p>\n

South Africa, which brought the case, has asked for the court to order Israel to halt its operation in the tiny coastal enclave. In the highly anticipated decision made by a panel of 17 judges, the International Court of Justice decided not to throw out the case. The reading of the ruling is ongoing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe court is acutely aware of the extent of the human tragedy that is unfolding in the region and is deeply concerned about the continuing loss of life and human suffering,\u201d Joan E. Donoghue, the court\u2019s president, said. Friday\u2019s decision is only an interim one; it could take years for the full case brought by South Africa to be considered. Israel rejects the genocide accusation and had asked the court to throw the charges out. While the case winds its way through the court, South Africa has asked the judges \u201cas a matter of extreme urgency\u201d to impose so-called provisional measures to protect Palestinians in Gaza \u2013 and the court could order those on Friday.<\/p>\n

Top of the South African list is a request for the court to order Israel to \u201cimmediately suspend its military operations in and against Gaza.\u201d It is also asking for Israel to take \u201creasonable measures\u201d to prevent genocide and allow access for desperately needed aid.<\/p>\n

In a statement Thursday, Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh said he hoped the decision would \u201cinclude immediate action to stop the aggression and genocide against our people in the Gaza Strip \u2026 and a rapid flow of relief aid to save the hungry, wounded and sick from the threat of slow death that threatens them.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Israeli government spokesperson Eylon Levy had said that Israel expected the court to toss out the \u201cspurious and specious charges.\u201d<\/p>\n

Israel often boycotts international tribunals and UN investigations, saying they are unfair and biased. But this time, it took the rare step of sending a high-level legal team \u2013 a sign of how seriously it regards the case and likely the fear that any court order to halt operations would be a major blow to the country\u2019s international standing.<\/p>\n

An Israeli official said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu huddled with top legal, diplomatic and security officials on Thursday in anticipation of the ruling. He said Israel is confident in its case but discussed \u201call scenarios.\u201d The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was discussing confidential meetings.<\/p>\n

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The top UN court stopped short Friday of ordering a ceasefire in Gaza but demanded that Israel try to contain death and damage in its military offensive in the tiny coastal enclave. South Africa, which brought the case, had asked for the court to order Israel to halt its operation. The United Nations\u2019 top court […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dailytimes.com.pk\/assets\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Untitleddddfvf.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-updates-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}