Nicaragua has brought Germany before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for violating the Genocide Convention after it continued to support ‘Israel’ military and politically.
As part of a two-day hearing on Monday, the Nicaraguan delegation presented its case, accusing Germany of “facilitating the commission of genocide” and urging the court to halt German arms exports to Israel and reinstate UNRWA funding.
In his opening remarks to the court, Nicaraguan Ambassador to the Netherlands Carlos Jose Arguello Gomez said: By continuing to support ‘Israel’, Germany is failing to fulfill its own obligation to prevent genocide or to ensure international humanitarian law is respected.
According to Nicaragua, the court must issue five provisional measures, including suspending Germany’s aid to ‘Israel’, including military assistance and reversing the decision to cease funding UNRWA.
Due to the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation in the Gaza enclave, the delegation deemed these measures to be “increasingly urgent and necessary.”
Germany, whose lawyers will present the delegation’s defence on Tuesday, rejected the charges.
After the hearing, German legal representative Tania von Uslar-Gleichen dismissed Nicaragua’s presentation as “grossly biased”.
The Nicaraguan case argues that since the start of the war, Germany has been fully aware that Israel was violating international law in Gaza, and that, following the ICJ’s ruling on 26 January that found a “plausible risk” of genocide in Gaza, these violations were tantamount to genocide.
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