(United Nations) The UN Security Council will meet on Wednesday to consider the decision of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) which called on Israel to prevent any possible act of “genocide” in Gaza, the presidency announced French Council.
The meeting, which will take place Wednesday at 11 a.m. (Eastern time), was requested by Algeria, “with a view to giving enforceable effect to the pronouncement of the International Court of Justice on the provisional measures which are necessary to the Israeli occupation,” the Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs indicated earlier in the day.
The highest court of the UN, seized by South Africa which considers that Israel is violating the United Nations Convention on Genocide, also asked Israel to take “immediate measures” to allow the provision of aid “which the Palestinians urgently need”.
However, she did not call for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
Despite everything, this decision “sends the clear message that in order to achieve all the objectives it sets, there is a need for a ceasefire,” the Palestinian ambassador to the UN commented on Friday. Riyad Mansour, who suggested that the Arab group, represented by Algeria in the Council, would push for a text requesting such a ceasefire.
“So fasten your seat belts!” “, he told the press, hailing the ICJ’s decision as a “historic day”.
Since October 7, the UN Security Council, deeply divided for a long time on the Israeli-Palestinian issue, has only been able to agree on a resolution twice, with numerous draft texts having been rejected either due to American, Russian or Chinese vetoes, or an insufficient number of votes.
In December, after fierce negotiations, he demanded the “large-scale” delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza, but without calling for a ceasefire which the Americans did not want, despite international pressure on them. Israeli ally.
The Hamas attack led to the deaths of more than 1,140 people in Israel, mostly civilians, according to an AFP count based on official Israeli figures.
In response, Israel vowed to “annihilate” Hamas, classified as a terrorist organization by the United States, the European Union and Israel, and launched a vast military operation that left 26,083 people dead, the vast majority of them women, children and adolescents, according to the movement’s Ministry of Health.