Nicaragua has hauled Germany before the International Court of Justice to demand that judges impose emergency measures to stop Berlin from providing Israel with weapons and other assistance.
THE HAGUE - The United Nations' top court will on Tuesday rule on charges by Nicaragua that Germany is breaching the 1948 Genocide Convention by supplying arms to Israel for the Gaza war.
More than 34,000 people have been killed in the Palestinian territory since war broke out in October following a cross-border attack by Hamas that left around 1,170 Israelis dead.Nicaragua targeted Germany rather than Israel's main ally, the United States, because Washington did not recognise the ICJ's jurisdiction in the case, Managua's lawyers have said.
"Germany only supplies arms based on a meticulous scrutiny that far exceeds the demands of international law," said Tania von Uslar-Gleichen, a German representative to the ICJ."The moment we look closely, Nicaragua's accusations fall apart," Christian Tams, another representative for Germany, told the court.
Israel vowed to destroy Hamas, with a retaliatory offensive that has killed at least 34,488 people in Gaza, mostly women and children, according to the Hamas-run territory's health ministry.In another procedure, South Africa has accused Israel - which like the US is not a member of the court - of perpetuating genocide in the Gaza Strip.
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