The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has issued an order demanding Israel to facilitate the unimpeded delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza, highlighting the severe famine conditions already taking root in the region. The tribunal's decision underscores the dire situation, with reports of at least 31 people, including 27 children, dying from malnutrition and dehydration. The ICJ's ruling refutes Israel's claims of not obstructing aid deliveries, pointing to extensive restrictions on the entry and distribution of humanitarian and commercial goods as the cause of the crisis. The court has called for an increase in the number of land crossings into Gaza and for these to remain open as necessary. Despite Israel's efforts to increase food truck deliveries to Gaza, with numbers ranging from 150 to 200 trucks per day, an 80% increase compared to before October 7, the ICJ and aid groups criticize these measures as insufficient, attributing the widespread starvation to Israel's stringent control and bureaucratic hurdles at border crossings, with the current allowance of "150 trucks per day" being "nearly 70 percent less" than before.
Hundreds of trucks loaded with food and medical aid idled on roads heading into Gaza recently as a senior humanitarian official accused Israel of blocking supplies from reaching the devastated enclave. https://t.co/I2YgkSEzCI
Between 150 to 200 trucks enter Gaza each day, most of which are food trucks. This is an 80% increase as compared with the average number of food trucks that entered Gaza before October 7.
Israel touts a series of small initiatives to deliver food to the starving Palestinian civilians of Gaza, but none is a substitute for substantially scaling up deliveries by truck, which Israel continues to impede with all sorts of bureaucratic obstacles. https://t.co/O1lsKetWdi
No wonder there is widespread starvation in Gaza: Israel is allowing in a measly 150 trucks per day," which is "nearly 70 percent less than the number before Oct. 7." Yet Israel blames everyone else for its (war crime) starvation strategy. https://t.co/PoqmUsNrcJ
The International Court of Justice endorsed the view of aid groups that blame Israel's obstruction of aid on "inspection backlogs at the few open border crossings...and outright denials of missions to bring in food, fuel and sanitation supplies." https://t.co/8wuubuM7DU
The ICJ's decision runs contrary to Israel's claim that it is not blocking aid deliveries to Gaza and orders Israel to do so by increasing the number of land crossings into Gaza and keeping them open for "as long as necessary" https://t.co/tr2FUHeY13
Israel blames everyone but itself for the mass starvation in Gaza. The International Court of Justice didn't buy that self-exculpatory lie and ordered Israel to start allowing unimpeded delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza. https://t.co/ZazswZwjI7 https://t.co/eaMikUV75D
The International Court of Justice "observes that Palestinians in Gaza are no longer facing only a risk of famine...but that famine is setting in, with at least 31 people, including 27 children, having already died of malnutrition and dehydration." https://t.co/ZazswZwjI7 https://t.co/VY0cF2s3xU
The International Court of Justice cited the UN rights chief: “the situation of hunger, starvation and famine is a result of Israel’s extensive restrictions on the entry and distribution of humanitarian aid and commercial goods," rejecting Israel's denial. https://t.co/ZazswZwjI7 https://t.co/DGHVdL4BPO
The Hague tribunal issued an order calling for humanitarian aid to be delivered to Gaza without restrictions or interruptions: “It is not that the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are in danger of starvation, but that this famine situation is already beginning.”