Day 3 of the ICJ hearings on allowing Aid into Gaza https://www.icj-cij.org/case/196
USA and Hungary defend genocide by starvation:
US official tells UN top court ‘serious concerns’ over UNRWA impartiality
Josh Simmons, the US representative at today’s ICJ hearing, has said that there were “serious concerns” about the impartiality of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA).
“Here there are serious concerns about UNRWA impartiality, including information that Hamas used UNRWA facilities and UNRWA staff participated in the terrorist attack against Israel,” Simmons told judges.
“Israel has therefore ample grounds to question UNRWA impartiality,” Simmons said.
About 40 nations and organisations such as the League of Arab States are taking part in the hearings which are taking place after the UN General Assembly requested the court to produce a non-binding advisory opinion on Israel’s responsibility to ensure the provision of essential supplies to Gaza.
“Given these concerns, it is clear that Israel has no obligation to permit UNRWA specifically to provide humanitarian assistance. UNRWA is not the only option for providing humanitarian assistance in Gaza,” he added.
US projecting, the concerns about US impartiality are far beyond concerns. And of course propagating Israeli lies.
There is still zero evidence that Hamas has used any of the 116 shelters UNWRA runs in Gaza and still zero evidence that any UNWRA staff participated in the terrorist attack. UNWRA did let 9 (out of 13,000) workers go for not having a solid alibi for Oct 7.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/08/1152841
With respect to the remaining nine cases, the evidence obtained by OIOS indicated that the UNRWA staff members may have been involved in the 7 October attacks.
“However, one thing I'd like to point out is that since information used by Israeli officials to support the allegations have remained in Israeli custody, OIOS was not able to independently authenticate most of the information provided to it,” he noted.
US officials lie as much as there Israeli masters.
Hungary alleges ‘politicisation’ of international legal forums at ICJ
Hungarian diplomat Gergo Kocsis has voiced his country’s reservations at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) about the ongoing advisory proceedings on Israel’s obligations in the occupied Palestinian territories.
He said that while ongoing proceedings were intended to tackle particular matters concerning a United Nations member state’s obligations under international law, “the pattern of politicisation of international judicial forums cannot be disregarded in examining this case before the esteemed court”.
Israel has also used charges of politicisation and even anti-Semitism to delegitimise proceedings against it at the ICJ as well as at the International Criminial Court, which issued arrest warrants last year for current PM Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant.
At the beginning of April, Hungary announced that it would withdraw from the ICC, with PM Viktor Orban, a staunch defender of Israel, saying at the time that the court had become “politicised”. Orban cited the decision against Israel as the basis of Hungary’s choice to withdraw.
“It is of great importance to maintain the confidence in the work of the court and to abstain from proceedings that may erode that confidence and may create a situation where the court becomes an actor in an ongoing conflict,” Kocsis told judges at the ICJ in The Hague.
“The resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can only be achieved through direct negotiations between the parties on the basis of international law,” he added, recalling the ICJ’s 2004 advisory opinion on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
