AntiWar.com reports Tuesday: “Israeli Attacks on Gaza Kill 57 Palestinians Over 24 Hours.”
The Guardian reports in “Israel seems set on destroying system of international law compliance, ICJ hears,” that Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh, the counsel for the Palestinian state, described Israel’s actions as “antithetical to a peace-loving state.” She said the restrictions on “the fundamental rights of the Palestinian people, [Israel’s] attacks on the United Nations and on UN officials, property and premises, its deliberate obstruction of the organisation’s work and its attempt to destroy an entire UN subsidiary organ” were “unprecedented in the history of the organisation.” See clip and full statement. (Ní Ghrálaigh had also represented the South African government in its Genocide Convention case against Israel, a separate but related case.)
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CRAIG MOKHIBER, [email protected], @CraigMokhiber
Mokhiber is an International human rights lawyer and former director of the New York Office of the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights, who stepped down from his post in 2023 and penned a viral letter on unfolding genocide and the UN’s failures.
He noted on Monday: “Five days of hearings have begun at the ICJ [Monday] on the Israeli regime’s attacks on and interference with UNRWA and other UN agencies in Palestine. The Court’s opinion will undoubtedly find against the regime, given its flagrant violations of international law in attacking international organizations & obstructing humanitarian aid. The U.S., which has been complicit in these violations, will shamefully intervene in support of the Israeli regime, alongside a few other complicit countries.”
He recently warned: “If Israel gets away with genocide, all of that nascent project of a world governed by human rights and the rule of law crumbles, and then it’s every person for themselves.”
He has recently written that the UN General Assembly should “organize a protective force for Palestine and a global embargo on the regime. Arab governments: get up off your knees and protect the Palestinian people before it’s too late. Other governments: join The Hague Group, isolate & cut off all relations with the regime, arrest perpetrators, prosecute complicity within your own borders. ICJ & ICC: end the delay, act now on the genocide.”
He has spoken in favor of the UNGA using Uniting for Peace to overcome the U.S. veto.
Mokhiber states that the Trump administration “is trying to strip UNRWA, a subsidiary body of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), of its diplomatic immunity (which is a serious violation of international law). The appropriate reciprocal response from all 193 countries that are members of the UNGA would be to strip all U.S. diplomats of their diplomatic immunity, wherever they are.”
See stream for the current ICJ proceedings.
See accuracy.org news release from last year: “Report: Israel Tortured False Confessions Out of UNRWA Staff.”