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Israel genocide case at ICJ

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivers its order on the request by Nicaragua to order Germany to cease arms sales to Israel against the background of the conflict in Gaza at the Peace Palace in The Hague, the seat of the ICJ, April 30, 2024. (Courtesy: International Court of Justice)
March 21, 2026, 5:25 am
Germany pulls support for Israel in ICJ genocide case as it faces own accusations
Berlin says it cannot support Israel’s case against charges without compromising defense of accusations by Nicaragua that Germany violated international law by backing Gaza war
By Shira Li Bartov
The International Court of Justice hears oral arguments over South Africa's application asking the court to order Israel to halt its military campaign against Hamas, May 17, 2024. (International Court of Justice)
March 13, 2026, 12:23 pm
US defends Israel against South Africa’s allegation of genocide in top UN court
US legal adviser: Finding against Israel would be ‘radical’; Iceland, Netherlands also intervene in case, with Dutch urging court to probe ‘deliberate withholding’ of aid
By AP and ToI Staff
In this September 7, 2017, file photo, smoke rises from a burned house in Gawdu Zara village, northern Rakhine state, where the vast majority of Myanmar's 1.1 million Rohingya lived. (AP Photo, File)
January 12, 2026, 10:28 am
UN court to begin hearings on whether Myanmar committed genocide against Rohingya
ICJ may use case to broaden definition of genocide in international law, which could influence dispute between South Africa and Israel over war in Gaza
By AP and ToI Staff
Presiding judge Yuji Iwasawa, third right, opens the International Court of Justice hearings into a United Nations request for an advisory opinion on Israel's obligations to allow humanitarian assistance in Gaza and the West Bank, in The Hague, Netherlands, April 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
December 23, 2025, 8:54 pm
Belgium joins South Africa’s genocide case against Israel
Brussels files declaration of intervention at The Hague, but says move intended to clarify its interpretation of international law rather than fully back case against Israel
By AFP and ToI Staff
Jimmy Wales, founder of online encyclopedia Wikipedia, poses for a portrait in London on January 13, 2021. (Daniel LEAL / AFP)
November 4, 2025, 4:33 pm
Wikipedia co-founder says page on ‘Gaza genocide’ locked due to anti-Israel bias
Jimmy Wales notes that claim Israel committing genocide is ‘highly contested,’ and says article in question is ‘particularly egregious example’ of non-neutral content on site
By Amy Spiro
Women line up outside a hybrid distribution site to collect food at a refugee camp in Maban, South Sudan on August 20, 2025. (Guy Peterson / AFP)
November 3, 2025, 12:51 pm
As world rises up for Gaza, Sudanese in Israel say larger catastrophe being ignored
With 150,000 dead since April 2023, scale of violence, famine, and disease in Sudan has dwarfed that of the Strip but garnered barely any world attention, fueling charges of racism
By Ariela Karmel
Palestinians inspect the destruction at a makeshift displacement camp following a reported incursion a day earlier by Israeli tanks in the area in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on July 11, 2025. (AFP)
September 22, 2025, 5:02 pm
Gaza genocide claims are based on skewed facts, sometimes deliberately, says study author
Prof. Danny Orbach and his colleagues say the amount of aid being let into the Strip has been miscalculated, Israel’s motivations misattributed, and Hamas’s use of human shields ignored
By Jeremy Sharon
Menachem Rosensaft (courtesy) / Palestinians stand on the edge of a crater after Israeli military strikes in a tent camp for displaced people near Al-Aqsa Hospital, in Deir al-Balah, August 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
August 26, 2025, 7:47 pm
What Matters Now to legal expert Menachem Rosensaft: Israel is not committing genocide
The Columbia and Cornell law prof delves into the precise definition of genocide and its history, but warns that there may be a case that the Jewish state is guilty of war crimes
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk attends solemn ceremonies at the monument to the 1939 heroic defense of the Westerplatte peninsula to mark the 85th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II, at Westerplatte, on the Baltic Sea, Poland, September 1, 2024. (Wojciech Strozyk/AP)
August 6, 2025, 10:26 am
Foreign Ministry summons Polish envoy after Tusk slams Israel with Holocaust allusion
Dressing down comes in response to Polish premier referencing ‘the hell of World War II’ when condemning ‘politicians whose actions lead to hunger and the death of mothers and children’
By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff
Presiding judge Yuji Iwasawa opens the International Court of Justice hearings into a United Nations request for an advisory opinion on Israel's obligations to allow humanitarian assistance in Gaza and the West Bank, in The Hague, Netherlands, April 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
April 30, 2025, 6:22 pm
At World Court hearing, US backs Israel’s right to ban UNRWA from Gaza
Legal adviser to administration argues international law gives Israel the right to decide which organizations run relief operations in Strip
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Judges for the International Court of Justice rise before delivering a non-binding ruling on Israeli rule in the West Bank and East Jerusalem at the ICJ in The Hague on July 19, 2024. (Nick Gammon/AFP)
April 4, 2025, 12:47 am
Nicaragua walks back request to join ICJ genocide case against Israel
FM Gideon Sa’ar praises decision as ‘better late than never,’ urges other signatories to follow suit; Nicaragua sought in February to join the case over Israel-Hamas war in Gaza
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
International Court of Justice Judge Yuji Iwasawa delivers a speech during the opening ceremony of the 7th Biennial Conference of the Asian Society of International Law in metropolitan Manila, Philippines, on August 22, 2019. (AP Photo/ Aaron Favila/ File)
March 3, 2025, 7:43 pm
ICJ elects Japanese judge Yuji Iwasawa as new president, replacing Nawaf Salam
Iwasawa, a member of the court since 2018, was previously a professor of international law at the University of Tokyo and chair of the United Nations Human Rights Committee
By AFP and ToI Staff
FILE -- US President Donald Trump speaks as he signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
February 8, 2025, 4:20 pm
Trump orders cut to funding for South Africa over land policy, ICJ case against Israel
US president pulls all aid, citing ‘genocide’ case against Israel and claims that Pretoria is taking land from white people; US aid to South Africa totaled $440 million in 2023
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Ugandan Judge Julia Sebutinde makes her solemn declaration as a new member of the ICJ in the Great Hall of Justice of the Peace Palace in The Hague, March 12, 2012. (ICJ)
January 17, 2025, 4:14 pm
Ugandan judge who backed Israel in genocide case said set to become ICJ chief
Julia Sebutinde, court’s current vice president, is expected to succeed Nawaf Salam after he is appointed Lebanon’s PM; Sebutinde was sole dissenting vote on every ICJ measure
By ToI Staff
Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu attends a protest of bereaved families of Israeli soldiers killed in the Gaza Strip calling for the continuation of the war outside the Prime Minister's Office, in Jerusalem, May 5, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 25, 2024, 9:53 pm
AG decides not to open criminal probes into senior officials for Gaza incitement
Comments saying atomic bomb could be dropped on Strip and other inflammatory calls were cited in ICJ case as key evidence of Israel’s alleged intent to commit genocide in Gaza
By Jeremy Sharon
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