[News] Following ICJ Ruling, Japan's Itochu to Sever Ties with Israel's Elbit

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Following ICJ Ruling, Japan's Itochu to Sever Ties with Israel's ElbitFebruary
5, 2024
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Itochu headquarters in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo: Tokyo Watcher, via Wikimedia
Commons)

*By Palestine Chronicle Staff
<https://www.palestinechronicle.com/writers/palestine-chronicle-staff>*

Itochu Corporation’s aviation unit will end its cooperation with Israeli
defense contractor company Elbit Systems Ltd by the end of February
following the ICJ ruling, the company announced on Monday.

Itochu Chief Financial Officer Tsuyoshi Hachimura said in a statement that
Itochu plans to end the collaboration after the World Court ordered Israel
last month to prevent acts of genocide against Palestinians and do more to
help civilians.

“Taking into consideration the International Court of Justice’s order on
January 26, and that the Japanese government supports the role of the
Court, we have already suspended new activities related to the MOU, and
plan to end the MOU by the end of February,” Hachimura said.

Itochu Aviation, Elbit Systems and Nippon Aircraft Supply (NAS) signed the
strategic cooperation memorandum of understanding (MoU) in March 2023,
seven months before Israel launched its genocidal war on Gaza.

The International Court of Justice ordered Israel on Friday to take
measures to prevent and punish direct incitement of genocide in its ongoing
war in Gaza.

An overwhelming majority of the ICJ’s 17-judge panel voted to order urgent
measures, which covered most of South Africa’s request, aside from ordering
a halt to the Israeli war on Gaza.

The court ordered Israel to refrain from any acts that could fall under the
genocide convention and also ensure that the Israeli army do not commit any
genocidal acts in Gaza.

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 27,365 Palestinians have been
killed, and 66,630 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on
October 7. Palestinian and international estimates say that the majority of
those killed and wounded are women and children.

Moreover, at least 8,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under
the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip.

Palestinian and international estimates say that the majority of those
killed and wounded are women and children.

The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement of
nearly two million people from all of the Gaza Strip, with the vast
majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of
Rafah near the border with Egypt – in what has become Palestine’s largest
mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.

*(PC, WAFA)*


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