EuroMed calls ICJ members to cut all ties with 'Israel' over genocide

By Al Mayadeen English
Source: Al Mayadeen
24 Feb 2024 11:38
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EuroMed says that the continuation of relations constitutes a type of support and endorsement of "Israel's" violation of the court's decisions and encourages the entity to persist in its genocidal actions.

A Palestinian man carries the body of a child killed in overnight Israeli shelling during a funeral in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, on October 10, 2023 (AFP)

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor called on Saturday for all member states of the International Court of Justice ICJ to sever all forms of political, economic, and military relations with "Israel" due to its blatant violation of the court's decisions calling for the cessation of genocide in the Gaza Strip.

This call was based on the belief that the continuation of these relations constitutes support and endorsement of an Israeli violation of the International Court of Justice's decision. Such support, the observatory said, encourages the occupation entity to persist in its genocidal actions against the Palestinian people.

EuroMed also condemned "Israel's" repeated violations of the court's order, as well as its breaches of the Genocide Convention ratified by "Israel."

The organization based its assessment of "Israel's" compliance with the court's decision on key indicators, including genocide, killing members of the group, causing them serious bodily or mental harm, imposing living conditions intended to destroy the group, preventing births, and forcibly transferring children out of the group, and publicly inciting genocide.

Since the issuance of the ICJ's decision, the Israeli occupation has killed more than 3,847 Palestinians, including 1,306 children and 807 women, in addition to injuring around 5,119 Palestinians.

The latest records bring the total number of martyrs since October 7 to 38,067 - 29,606 declared martyred and over 8,000 individuals under the rubble and missing assumed dead, the organization added.

EuroMed called for decisive international pressure to immediately and rapidly deliver necessary humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, to stop the spread of famine in the Strip, and to press for the entry of international and UN investigative committees to prevent the destruction of evidence related to the crimes committed by "Israel."

UN experts: Arms exports to "Israel" must stop

More than 30 independent UN experts said that any transfer of arms or ammunition to "Israel" for use in Gaza is likely to violate international humanitarian law and must stop immediately.

According to the United Nations, parties to the Arms Trade Treaty have obligations to refuse the export of weapons if they know that they will be used to commit international crimes or if there is a substantial risk that such weapons will be used to commit serious violations of international humanitarian law.

The watchdogs added that such transfer of arms and ammunition is prohibited even if the exporting state does not intend for the weapons to be used in violation of the law or is certain that they will be used in that way, as long as there is a clear risk of that happening.