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Tuesday, October 29, 2024
From the Liveblog of
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Norway to ask ICJ to weigh in on Israeli obligation to facilitate foreign aid to Palestinians
A Palestinian woman walks past a damaged wall bearing the UNRWA logo at a camp for internally displaced people in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on May 28, 2024. (Eyad Baba/AFP)
Norway says it will put forward a UN General Assembly resolution to ask the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for an opinion on Israel’s obligations to facilitate aid to Palestinians that is delivered by international groups, including the United Nations, and states.
The move comes in response to Israel’s decision last night to pass legislation that will ban the operation of the UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA and other obstacles faced by other UN agencies in their aid work over the past year, Norway says in a statement.
