The United Nations' top court is to rule on charges by Nicaragua that Germany is breaching the 1948 Genocide Convention by supplying arms to Israel for the Gaza war.
More than 34,000 people have been killed in the Palestinian territory since war broke out in October following a cross-border attack by Hamas that left around 1,170 Israelis dead.Nicaragua targeted Germany rather than Israel's main ally, the United States, because Washington did not recognise the ICJ's jurisdiction in the case, Nicargua's lawyers have said.
"Germany only supplies arms based on a meticulous scrutiny that far exceeds the demands of international law," said Tania von Uslar-Gleichen, a German representative to the ICJ."The moment we look closely, Nicaragua's accusations fall apart," Christian Tams, another representative for Germany, told the court.
Last month, Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin announced that Ireland will intervene in that case.
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