The International Court of Justice’s contribution to addressing the genocide in Gaza: “analysis and evaluation”
By: Dr. Mohammed Shtaya , ssociate Professor of Criminal Law
Assistant Professor of Public International Law, Al-Istiqlal University- Palestine
Submitted to: Global Tribunal on Palestine, Geneva, Switzerland, 6-8 June 2024
Introduction
The occupied Palestinian territories have been witnessing the most heinous violations of international humanitarian and human rights law since the Palestinian Nakba in 1948 to this day; the conscience of the international community has not been shaken by the horror of these violations committed by the Israeli occupation authorities for seventy-six years to put an end to them, as they constitute serious international crimes that undermine international peace and security for the entire international community.On October 7, 2023, the Israeli occupation authorities launched the worst genocidal holocaust in contemporary history against Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip in response to acts of Palestinian resistance, which are regulated by international law and legitimized by the right of resistance, including armed struggle.
The UN Security Council, one of the main organs of the United Nations and primarily responsible for the maintenance of international peace and security, has not taken any steps to stop these crimes under its powers, as defined by Chapter VII of the UN Charter, as it did in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda in the 1990s.
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