The UK has been taken to the International Court of Justice for aiding and abetting the Jews' genocide in Gaza.
"A state's obligation to prevent, and the corresponding duty to act, arise at the instant that the state learns of, or should normally have learned of, the existence of a serious risk that genocide will be committed."
KernowDamo: Court proceedings have begun by Nicaragua against the UK and three other countries for aiding and abetting in Israel's genocide.
Right, so, this story has sort of come out of nowhere this morning, that Nicaragua are not only going to take the UK to the ICJ for complicity in Israel’s genocide, but is going to take Canada, Germany and the Netherlands there too, though curiously not the US, which does seem weird and somewhat selective and I wonder if their close proximity to the US might be part of the story there, that exempting the US from their litigation will undoubtedly raise questions. But at any rate, it looks like the UK getting it’s day in the dock of the Hague for aiding and abetting Israel in it’s actions in Gaza has just moved a step closer to becoming a reality. Right, so Nicaragua, they’ve decided to follow in South Africa’s footsteps having taken Israel to the ICJ, to now take other nations who, since that ruling, are ignoring it, and continuing to provide military support and aid to Israel, knowing they are using it to conduct their atrocities in Gaza. Proceedings, according to thusfar the only media outlet covering this story, the Lebanese based Al Mayadeen, began yesterday at the ICJ, following a statement published by the Nicaraguan government on the 1st February, setting out their case: The Government of Reconciliation and National Unity informs the people of Nicaragua and the international community that it has notified the governments of the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands and Canada of its decision to hold them responsible under international law for gross and systematic violations to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, international humanitarian law and customary law, including the law of occupation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, in particular the Gaza Strip. In this vein, in a note verbal sent to these governments, Nicaragua recalled that the facts and circumstances of the Israeli actions in and against the Palestinians led the International Court of Justice to conclude on 26 January 2024 “that at least some of the rights claimed by South Africa and for which it is seeking protection are plausible. This is the case with respect to the right of the Palestinians in Gaza to be protected from acts of genocide and related prohibited acts identified in Article III”. Although the Order on Provisional Measures of the Court is not a judgment on the merits, nevertheless on the evidence publicly available, the Court found it plausible that the Genocide convention has been and is being violated by Israel. If genocide is plausibly occurring in the Gaza Strip in the judgment of the highest world Court, it cannot be otherwise in the judgment of the international community that is also dramatically aware of the same facts that led the Court to that conclusion. The obligation to prevent genocide arises and begins when there is a risk of it occurring; in fact, when it is plausible that it is occurring or might occur. This plausibility is now beyond doubt and dispute.
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