It took just 13 days for the International Court of Justice to organize the hearings and another 13 days to adopt provisional measures. The speed with which the ICJ acted shows the gravity of the situation and the strong presumption of genocide.
The ICJ imposed six provisional measures on Israel, ordering it to take all actions aimed at preventing the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, to ensure that the military abide by these regulations, to act against incitement to genocide, to provide urgent humanitarian aid to populations, to preserve all evidence and to provide a report within one month regarding these measures. These measures taken together amount to a long-term humanitarian pause.
These six measures are extremely important because they are JUDICIAL decisions and not political ones. As a result, they are enforceable and, although the ICJ does not have a police force, each State is required to apply them, otherwise it engage its responsibility.
These measures are also important because they link the end of occupation and apartheid in Palestine on the one hand and the role of the West in supporting Israel on the other. It is worth remembering that it was the West which supported apartheid in South Africa, and that, following pressure from people around the world, this same West put an end to the apartheid regime and helped replace it with a democratic state representing the entire population of South Africa.
Furthermore, from now on the name of Israel will be associated with the genocide of the Palestinian people, removing the 75 years Zionist propaganda which presented Israel as "the only democracy in the Middle East"! From now on it will rather be: "the only state to commit genocide in the Middle East."
The path is therefore set: the peoples of the world, by continuing their pressure on the West, will get it to finally put an end to the occupation and apartheid that Israel represents, just as it did in South Africa in the early 1990s. This will happen sooner or later when the United States realizes that supporting Israel is not in its interest, in addition to being illegal and immoral.
Benyounes Saidi
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