ISLAMABAD: Supporters of the Palestinian trigger on Friday hailed the ICJ verdict ordering Israel to halt its navy operation in Rafah, as Pakistan known as on the worldwide group to right away implement the world court docket’s resolution to cease Israeli aggression in Gaza.
In an announcement issued after the ruling, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif paid tribute to the braveness of the 13 judges who made the choice and thanked South Africa for filing the petition towards Israel’s genocidal marketing campaign towards Palestinians.
He additionally urged the worldwide group to make sure the supply of humanitarian assist and reduction to the individuals of Palestine apart from offering instant entry to the UN investigation fee to Gaza and Rafah.
Pakistan will proceed to play its function in defending the fundamental human and authorized rights of the Palestinian individuals, he assured.
Later, PM Shehbaz telephoned his Irish counterpart Simon Harris and felicitated him on assuming office.
On the difficulty of Palestine, the PM expressed deep admiration for the current resolution taken by the federal government of Eire to recognise the state of Palestine. Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, Turkiye and Saudi Arabia have been additionally among the many international locations that welcomed the ruling.
In an announcement, the Egyptian overseas ministry known as on Israel to “adjust to its authorized obligations inside the framework of the Conference on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and worldwide humanitarian legislation, and to implement all interim measures issued by the ICJ, that are thought of legally binding and enforceable, as they’re issued by the very best worldwide judicial physique.”
“Egypt stresses that Israel bears full obligation for the deteriorating humanitarian circumstances within the Gaza Strip because the occupying energy, calling on Israel to cease its systematic insurance policies towards the Palestinian individuals of concentrating on, hunger and siege in violation of all provisions of worldwide legislation and worldwide humanitarian legislation.”
In its assertion, Saudi Arabia additionally welcomed “the choice issued by the Worldwide Court docket of Justice ordering Israel to right away cease the navy offensive or another actions in Rafah, in accordance with the Conference on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.”
Anwar Iqbal provides from Washington: US media shops, akin to CNN and The New York Instances, famous that President Biden had shortly rejected the ICJ’s arrest warrant towards the Israeli prime minister final week, however had but to touch upon Friday’s order.
A number of media shops famous that the US choose on the ICJ, Sarah Cleveland, voted in favor of the court docket’s order for Israel to halt its offensive on Gaza’s Rafah. When she was elected as an ICJ choose final November, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken praised the court docket as a “guardian of worldwide legislation.”
Amnesty Worldwide, emphasised that every one third-party states have a authorized obligation to stop genocide, which means they themselves should take motion to make sure that the ICJ’s provisional measures are applied.
Oxfam praised the ICJ order to halt Israel’s navy actions in Rafah, emphasizing that Israel “should adjust to the ruling, stop its offensive, and permit humanitarian assist to succeed in Gaza.”
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