The United Nations' top court said on Friday that at least some rights sought by South Africa in its genocide case against Israel's war in Gaza are plausible. | With the reading still ongoing, the court said it recognises the right of Palestinians in Gaza to be protected from acts of genocide. Palestinians appear to be a protected group under the genocide convention, the court said. Friday's ruling at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) does not deal with the core accusation of the case - whether genocide occurred - but will focus on the urgent intervention sought by South Africa.

■ APPLICATION OF THE CONVENTION ON THE PREVENTION AND PUNISHMENT OF THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE IN THE GAZA STRIP (ORDER OF 26 JANUARY 2024) (.pdf) + APPLICATION INSTITUTING PROCEEDINGS (.pdf)

■ Israeli top officials outraged by 'antisemitic' ICJ genocide ruling (Al Mayadeen)
■ World reacts to ICJ ruling on South Africa’s genocide case against Israel (Al Jazeera)
■ Global reactions to ICJ ruling on Gaza genocide case against Israel (TRT World)
■ Live blog: UN rapporteur laments ICJ did not order Gaza ceasefire (TRT World)
■ Germany says Israel must comply with UN court’s Gaza ruling (Anadolu)
■ Palestine vs. Israel: "There Has Never Been Such a Clearcut Case of Good vs. Evil" (Kevin Barrett)
■ ICJ orders Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza and allow in aid (MEE)
■ ICJ rules Israel must ‘take all measures within its its power’ to avoid Gaza genocide (Jewish News)
■ ICJ criticizes Israel strongly but does not rule on stopping Gaza war (Jerusalem Post)
■ US to supply F-35, F-15 fighter jets to Israel amid Gaza war (Anadolu)

■ APPLICATION INSTITUTING PROCEEDINGS (.pdf)(84 pages) Press Release (.pdf)

■ APPLICATION INSTITUTING PROCEEDINGS (.pdf)(84 pages) Press Release (.pdf)

■ APPLICATION INSTITUTING PROCEEDINGS (.pdf)(84 pages) Press Release (.pdf)
■ The Expression of Hatred for Gentiles (Richard Edmondson/Nahida Izzat) (10/04/14)

THE HAGUE, 24 January 2024. On Friday 26 January 2024, the International Court of Justice will deliver its Order on the Request for the indication of provisional measures submitted by South Africa in the case concerning Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel). A public sitting will take place at 1 p.m. at the Peace Palace in The Hague, during which Judge Joan E. Donoghue, the President of the Court, will read the Court’s Order.

■ APPLICATION OF THE CONVENTION ON THE PREVENTION AND PUNISHMENT OF THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE IN THE GAZA STRIP (ORDER OF 26 JANUARY 2024) (.pdf) + APPLICATION INSTITUTING PROCEEDINGS (.pdf)

■ Live: ICJ to give interim ruling on genocide case against Israel (MEE)
■ Genocide case against Israel: What to know about ICJ ruling on provisional measures (aNews)
■ Israel genocide case: Possible scenarios for interim world court ruling (Anadolu)

Israeli forces have already destroyed 1,100 of the 2,800 buildings in Gaza's border areas | Israel is destroying buildings and flattening areas of Gaza on the Israeli border to create a so-called “buffer zone” that Israel will militarize, demonstrating its long-term plans to occupy the Strip. ● According to The Wall Street Journal, Israeli soldiers began working in November in an area in northern Gaza to create a wasteland roughly 1 kilometer in width. “Everything has been flattened,” one soldier said. “It was mostly agriculture. Now it’s a military zone, a complete no man’s land.” ● Twenty-one Israeli soldiers were recently killed while planting explosives in a central Gaza neighborhood near the border as part of the work to destroy Gaza’s border areas. A Hamas rocket hit a nearby tank, detonating the explosives and collapsing the buildings. According to a recent report from Israel’s N12 news, Israeli forces have already destroyed 1,100 of the 2,800 buildings in the border areas.

■ Gaza death toll rises to 26,083 as 183 more Palestinians killed over last 24 hours: Health Ministry (Anadolu)
■ Hamas says war death toll soars past 26,000 (Hürriyet)
■ Israeli assaults on Gaza leave 14 Palestinians dead, dozens wounded (Anadolu)
■ US to supply F-35, F-15 fighter jets to Israel amid Gaza war (Anadolu)

🇯🇵🇵🇸 Japanese politician, Akiko Oishi, speaks up for Palestine at Japan’s House of Representatives.

“If this is not a genocide, what is?” pic.twitter.com/3WDK328CS4

— Censored Men (@CensoredMen) November 23, 2023

Qamar Taleb | The ICC's Chief Prosecutor keeps on asking for evidence regarding the Israeli genocide in Gaza, so here's the tip of the iceberg. | On October 30, 2023, Karim Khan, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) released a statement addressing the Israeli war on Gaza with a tint of poetry: "The laws that we have, the Rome Statute that I operate under, requires that innocent lives are particularly protected. And what is most important is that the application of the law is not theoretical. People have heard promises for a long time. There have been enough words to fill libraries. In my view, the protections afforded by the law apply equally regardless of one's race and one's religion, one's nationality, one's gender.” And he’s absolutely right, but the latter is only part of the words filling libraries if no action is taken by the Court.

Rachel Marsden | Brussels’ diktat on climate change and support for Ukraine is seen as more important than the people who actually feed the country | The French government is scrambling to get a whole lot of tractors off the nation’s major highways. Good luck with that when 89% of French citizens back the protesting farmers, according to a new Odoxa poll. ● France is joining a movement that now encompasses nearly 20% of the EU, with farmers in five of the bloc’s 27 countries convoying and blockading major roads. Farmers in Poland, Romania, Germany, and the Netherlands have now been joined by their counterparts from the country virtually synonymous with revolution. And one particular incident here in France has just shifted the nascent movement into overdrive.

Hundreds of entrance holes from the striking elements of a missile were found on the wreckage of the downed Il-76 military plane that crashed in Russia's Belgorod Region, the striking elements were also found in the fragments of the outer layer of the aircraft, a representative of the emergency services told Sputnik. | On Wednesday, the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) said that an Il-76 military transport plane with 65 Ukrainian PoWs being transported for exchange had crashed in the Belgorod Region. All the PoWs along with six crew members and three accompanying persons on board died. ● The MoD accused the Ukrainian forces of downing the plane. Later, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry stated that its staff was not aware that Russia's Il-76 was transporting Ukrainian PoWs for a prisoner swap, but Ukrainian news portal Strana.ua reported that the ministry had confirmed a prisoner exchange between the parties was scheduled for Wednesday.

■ Pentagon Says Looking Into Whether US Weapons Used in Downing of Russian Il-76 Plane (Sputnik News)
■ West to be complicit in attack on Il-76 if use of Western weapons proven — diplomat (TASS)