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

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EuroMed calls ICJ members to cut all ties with 'Israel' over genocide
Al Mayadeen English
February 24, 2024
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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.
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   - 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.

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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.

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blockade
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The latest records bring the total number of martyrs since October 7 to
38,067 - 29,606 declared
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/day-138--29-313-martyred--69-333-injured-in-gaza>
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."


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Office
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UN experts: Arms exports to "Israel" must stop

More than 30 independent UN experts said that any transfer of arms or
ammunition
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-israel-s--arms-industry-benefits-from-brutal-military-occup>
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.

*Read more: 1 in 6 children under 2 yrs. in north Gaza acutely
malnourished: UN
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/1-in-6-children-under-2-yrs--in-north-gaza-acutely-malnouris>*
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