Nicaragua to set out case against Germany in ICJ today for Gaza
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Nicaragua is accusing Germany of breaching the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention and requesting five provisional measures against it.
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A Palestinian flag flies outside the United Nations' highest court, rear, during historic hearings in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, February 21, 2024. (AP)
Nicaragua will set out its case against Germany today at the top UN court, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for "facilitating the commission of genocide" against Palestinians, as it has been providing the Israeli occupation with military and financial aid.
Germany is set to respond to Nicaragua today, April 8.
In a 43-page submission to the court, Nicaragua states that Germany is breaching the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention.
Nicaragua has requested five provisional measures, including that Germany "immediately suspend its aid to Israel, in particular its military assistance including military equipment."
It also urged the court to order Germany to "reverse its decision to suspend the funding of UNRWA."
How it started
On March 1, Nicaragua accused Germany of enabling genocide in Gaza in a lawsuit brought before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), of supporting "Israel" and blocking funds for the UN Palestinian refugee agency.
"By sending military equipment and now defunding UNRWA (UN agency for Palestinian refugees)... Germany is facilitating the commission of genocide," it said in its submission.
"Germany is facilitating the commission of genocide and, in any case, has failed in its obligation to do everything possible to prevent the commission of genocide," Nicaragua asserted in a petition issued by the court in The Hague.
"Germany's failure is all the more reprehensible with respect to Israel given that Germany has a self-proclaimed privileged relationship with it, which would enable it to usefully influence its conduct," Nicaragua said.
Not only Nicaragua
The Nicaraguan government started in early February proceedings to take Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Canada to the ICJ for their complicity in the genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza by providing the Israeli occupation with the weapons and means to carry out the horrendous act.
The executive authority in Nicaragua published an official statement in which it revealed that it warned the governments of said Western powers that they might be jointly complicit in the "flagrant and systemic violations" of the Convention on Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and international humanitarian law in the Gaza Strip.
Nicaragua urged the four states to immediately cease the provision of arms, munitions, and technologies to "Israel" because it might use them to facilitate or commit violations of the Genocide Convention in Gaza.
The filing of the complaint came after the ICJ stated on January 26 that "Israel" must do all that is possible to avoid genocidal crimes in Gaza and take "immediate" measures to allow humanitarian assistance.
That interim injunction was issued as the court prepares to hear the main genocide case against "Israel" filed by South Africa last December.
