Genocide claim<\/p>\n
After Germany presents its case on Monday, Nicaragua will respond before both countries get another chance to address the court on Wednesday and Thursday.<\/p>\n
It takes on average six months for the court to hand down a ruling in such cases.<\/p>\n
The court could either side with Germany and throw out the case completely or rule against Berlin, meaning the case would then be considered “on the merits” in more detail.<\/p>\n
During hearings at the court in April 2024, Nicaragua said Germany was “pathetic” to provide aid to Gaza while also simultaneously furnishing Israel with weapons.<\/p>\n
Nicaragua’s ambassador to the Netherlands, Carlos Jose Arguello Gomez, told the court: “Germany seems not to be able to differentiate between self-defence and genocide.”<\/p>\n
Germany retorted that Nicaragua’s case was “grossly biased”, strongly denying the accusations that it was in breach of the 1948 UN Genocide Convention.<\/p>\n
Israel launched its offensive in Gaza in response to the deadly October 7, 2023 attacks against it by Hamas militants.<\/p>\n
Due to its Nazi past, Germany has placed Israel’s security “at the core” of its foreign policy, its representative told the court in the 2024 hearings.<\/p>\n
Germany said its arms trade with Israel was subject to “detailed scrutiny… that far exceeds the requirements of international law”.<\/p>\n
This procedure is separate from a high-profile case also before the ICJ, in which South Africa has accused Israel of perpetrating genocide in Gaza, which Israel denies.<\/p>\n
The ICJ’s rulings are binding but it has no power to enforce them.<\/p>\n
For example, it has ordered Russia to stop its invasion of Ukraine, a demand that has fallen on deaf ears in the Kremlin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Genocide claim After Germany presents its case on Monday, Nicaragua will respond before both countries get another chance…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7018,42],"class_list":["post-43613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-hague","tag-gaza-genocide","tag-the-hague"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}