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Lebanon’s Nawaf Salam Elected President of the International Court of Justice
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LEBANON’S NAWAF SALAM ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE

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LEBANON’S NAWAF SALAM ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE

A photo posted by Judge Nawaf Salam on his X account after his election as head
of the ICJ.

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague elected Lebanese judge
Nawaf Salam as its president for a three-year term succeeding US Judge Joan
Donoghue.

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Salam is the first Lebanese and second Arab to occupy this position, after the
former Algerian Foreign Minister and President of the Constitutional Court,
Mohamed Bedjaoui.

Salam, who currently holds the highest judicial position in the world, joined
the ICJ in 2018.



The International Court of Justice comprises 15 judges elected to nine-year
terms of office by the United Nations General Assembly and the Security Council.

The Court may entertain two types of cases: legal disputes between States
submitted to it by them and requests for advisory opinions on legal questions
referred to by UN organs and specialized agencies.

The Court, dubbed the World Court, is the principal judicial body of the United
Nations.

Former Lebanese Foreign Minister Fouad Ammoun also served as a judge in the
Court between 1965 and 1976 and was elected vice president.

Salam, whose name was recently put forward as a candidate for prime ministry,
previously served as Lebanon’s ambassador to the UN between 2007 and 2017. He
represented his country in the Security Council in 2010 and 2011 and chaired its
work in May 2010 and September 2011.

He also taught contemporary history at the Sorbonne University and international
relations and law at the American University of Beirut, where he headed the
Department of Political Science and Public Administration from 2005 to 2007.

Nawaf Salam holds a state doctorate in political science from the Institute of
Political Studies in Paris, a doctorate in history from the Sorbonne University,
and a master’s degree in laws from Harvard University.

He has many books on politics, history, and law, the most recent of which is
“Lebanon Between Past and Future,” published in Beirut in 2021.





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US Says Disagrees with Amnesty International's Genocide Accusation Against
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US SAYS DISAGREES WITH AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL'S GENOCIDE ACCUSATION AGAINST
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US SAYS DISAGREES WITH AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL'S GENOCIDE ACCUSATION AGAINST
ISRAEL

Displaced Palestinians sit next to a makeshift oven in a tent set up on an area
in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem
Hana)

The United States disagrees with Amnesty International's conclusion that Israel
has committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza war, the State
Department said on Thursday.

State Department deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel told reporters at a regular
news briefing that the US continues to find allegations of genocide in Gaza
unfounded, after the London-based Amnesty International human rights group in a
report on Thursday said Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in
Gaza.

The 1948 Genocide Convention, enacted in the wake of the mass murder of Jews in
the Nazi Holocaust, defines genocide as "acts committed with intent to destroy,
in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.”
Israel has consistently rejected any accusation of genocide, saying it has
respected international law and has a right to defend itself after the
cross-border Hamas attack from Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023 that precipitated the war.

Israel launched its air and ground war in Gaza after Hamas-led fighters attacked
Israeli communities across the border 14 months ago, killing 1,200 people and
taking over 250 hostages back to Gaza, according to Israeli tallies.
Gaza's Health Ministry says that Israel's military campaign since then has
killed more than 44,400 Palestinians and injured many others.
Palestinian and UN officials say there are no safe areas left in Gaza, a tiny,
densely populated and heavily built-up coastal territory. Most of Gaza's 2.3
million people have been internally displaced, some as many as 10 times.





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