"Published on 26 January 2024, the order issued by the court called for provisional measures on Israel and said Palestinians in Gaza had plausible rights to protection from genocide rights the court suggested were at a real risk of irreparable damage. Supporting that ruling, the judges listed a series of statements made by senior Israeli officials, underpinning the claim by Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN's main Palestinian agency, UNRWA, that the crisis in Gaza was being compounded by dehumanising language."
"Second in that list of statements was a comment made by Israel's president, Isaac Herzog, in which he asserted that all Palestinians in Gaza were unequivocally responsible for the Hamas attack on southern Israel on 7 October. The entire [Palestinian] nation out there that is responsible, said Herzog. It is not true this rhetoric about civilians not aware, not involved."
On 26 January 2024 the ICJ issued an order calling for provisional measures on Israel and found Palestinians in Gaza had plausible rights to protection from genocide, which the court said faced a real risk of irreparable harm. The court referenced statements by senior Israeli officials that the UNRWA chief described as dehumanising. Israel's president Isaac Herzog asserted collective Palestinian responsibility for the 7 October Hamas attack and later disputed that the ICJ selectively quoted him, claiming he had said Israel acted in accordance with international law. Credible bodies, including genocide scholars, have contested Israel's compliance with that claim.
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