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'Criminal, you belong to ICJ': Journalists heckle Blinken during last conference

Antony Blinken, who is set to leave office after Trump's inauguration has been under tight scrutiny for providing Israel with weapons and diplomatic support

After Husseini's outburst, security personnel quickly intervened and took him away from the room.(AP)
Updated on Jan 17, 2025 04:20 AM IST

Lebanon's president names ICJ judge Nawaf Salam prime minister

A majority of Lebanese lawmakers endorsed Salam, the presiding judge at the ICJ in The Hague, after two years of a caretaker government

Nawaf Salam was abroad but would return to Lebanon on Tuesday.(AFP)
Published on Jan 14, 2025 12:56 AM IST
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South Africa submits evidence to bolster genocide charges against Israel at ICJ

It contains documents supporting accusation that Israel has “violated the genocide convention by promoting the destruction of Palestinians living in Gaza”.

Israeli delegation members sit at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), at the start of a hearing where South Africa requests new emergency measures over Israel's attacks on Rafah, as part of an ongoing case South Africa filed at the ICJ in December last year accusing Israel of violating the Genocide Convention during its offensive against Palestinians in Gaza. (File image)(Reuters)
Updated on Oct 29, 2024 04:49 AM IST
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ICJ ruling on Israel should spur a rethink in the West

This case adds to the already momentous pressure on Israel to comply with its international law obligations.

This photograph shows a general view of the courtroom during a non-binding ruling on the legal consequences of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague on July 19, 2024. (Photo by Lina Selg / ANP / AFP) / Netherlands OUT (AFP)
Published on Jul 31, 2024 08:42 PM IST

UN top court terms Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory 'illegal'

The 15-judge panel said Israel's “abuse of its status as the occupying power" renders its “presence in the occupied Palestinian territory unlawful.”

Judge and President of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Nawaf Salam (2nd R) delivers a non-binding ruling on the legal consequences of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague on July 19, 2024.(AFP)
Updated on Jul 19, 2024 08:49 PM IST

Under the eyes of two courts, Israel pushes into Rafah as Washington wavers

In its May 24 order, the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to “immediately halt its military offensive, and any other action in Rafah”.

Smoke rises from an Israeli airstrike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Friday, May 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)(AP)
Published on Jun 02, 2024 01:56 AM IST

ICJ orders Israel to halt military offensive in Rafah

Criticism of Israel's conduct in the war in Gaza has been growing, particularly once it turned its focus to Rafah.

Immediately after the ruling, Netanyahu announced that he would hold a special ministerial meeting to decide how to respond. Yair Lapid, the leader of the opposition, derided the decision.. (AFP)
Updated on May 24, 2024 09:48 PM IST
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Has West lost its appetite for a rules-based order?

. The scales are tilting against the West as the inaction of the ICC calls into question the applicability of the international rules-based order.

The judges including President Joan Donoghue (C) attend a session of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in a case of Ukraine against Russia, in The Hague on February 2, 2024. The United Nations' top court will decide on February 2, 2024, whether it has jurisdiction to rule in a case brought by Ukraine over Russia's brutal 2022 invasion, with Kyiv urging reparations. Two days into the invasion, Ukraine filed a suit at the ICJ,
Published on Feb 17, 2024 09:50 PM IST

Moral ground is lost, but Israel will stick to an old script

The ICJ interim ruling has provided a legal basis to judge Tel Aviv’s actions in Gaza

A shock wave is visible as an Israeli army self-propelled artillery fires a round from southern Israel toward the Gaza Strip (AFP)
Updated on Feb 02, 2024 11:13 PM IST

Have taken note, says India on ICJ directions to Israel on preventing genocide

The UN’s top court ordered Israel on January 26 to do everything to prevent death, destruction and acts of genocide in Gaza following a case filed by South Africa

FILE PHOTO: The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) terminated the contracts of some staff members after Israel alleged 13 employees were associated with the October 7 attacks (REUTERS)
Updated on Feb 01, 2024 08:28 PM IST

Eye on the Middle East | ICJ interim order is a signal for peace in the region

A political solution to the Israel-Palestine question shall act as a cushion to absorb any International Court of Justice's verdict on genocide in the future

Judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) rule on emergency measures against Israel following accusations by South Africa that the Israeli military operation in Gaza is a state-led genocide, in The Hague, Netherlands, January 26, 2024.(REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw)
Published on Jan 28, 2024 01:18 PM IST

Canada, Sweden, Ukraine, UK take Iran to ICJ over downing of jetliner

They allege Iran "violated a series of obligations" under a convention on civil aviation by shooting down Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752.

Soldiers carry a coffin containing the remains of one of the eleven Ukrainian victims of the Ukraine International Airlines flight 752 plane disaster during a memorial ceremony at the Boryspil International Airport, outside Kiev.(Reuters)
Published on Jul 05, 2023 04:09 PM IST
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Parents of Danish Siddiqui, Reuters photographer shot by Taliban, move ICC

The Pulitzer Prize-winning Indian photographer was allegedly killed by the Taliban in Afghanistan last year.

Journalists in New Delhi light candles and pay tribute to Reuters photographer Danish Siddiqui. (AP file)
Updated on Mar 22, 2022 05:00 PM IST
By, New Delhi

Ukraine approaches International Court of Justice against Russia

Russia-Ukraine war: Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky now looks up to the Hague for disengagement of Russian military in Ukraine. 

Russia must be held accountable for manipulating the notion of genocide to justify aggression, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said. (AFP)
Published on Feb 27, 2022 04:37 PM IST
By | Written by Poulomi Ghosh
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