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WHAT DOES ISRAEL NEED TO DO TO COMPLY WITH THE ICJ GENOCIDE DECISION?
PROVISIONAL MEASURES ORDERED BY THE COURT THAT ISRAEL ALLEVIATE THE HUMANITARIAN
SITUATION IN GAZA AND PREVENT INCITEMENT TO GENOCIDE WILL BE KEY TO
DEMONSTRATING COMPLIANCE
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File: The International Court of Justice, the principal judicial organ of the
UN, delivers its order South Africa's request for provisional measures against
Israel over its actions in the Gaza Strip, January 26, 2024. (International
Court of Justice)
The International Court of Justice’s decision on Friday finding that it is at
least plausible that Israel violated some of the terms of the Genocide
Convention during its war against Hamas in Gaza was something of a mixed bag for
Jerusalem.
On the one hand, the very nature of that finding does severe reputational damage
to Israel and further weakens its international standing.
On the other, the provisional measures the court ordered were also relatively
mild. The ICJ said very generally and vaguely that Israel must do everything in
its power to “prevent” acts of genocide, but since it did not tell Israel to
“desist” from such acts or even to halt its military campaign in Gaza, there is
little Israel needs to do to demonstrate compliance with that particular order.
The court did, however, issue several other measures that will require more
active steps by Israel in order to comply with the ICJ’s orders.
MEASURES TO BE ADOPTED
In total, the court issued six specific “provisional measures” Israel needs to
comply with.
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The first order instructs Israel to “take all measures within its power to
prevent the commission” of genocidal acts, and the second states that Israel
must “ensure with immediate effect” that the army isn’t carrying out genocidal
acts.
President of the International Court of Justice Judge Joan E. Donoghue delivers
the court’s order on the request for the indication of provisional measures
submitted by South Africa against Israel over its actions in the Gaza Strip,
January 26, 2024. (Courtesy International Court of Justice)
Since Israel already insists that it is not carrying out genocidal acts against
the Palestinians in Gaza, and explained this position at length both in oral
arguments in The Hague and in material submitted to the court, there is little
it can practically do to show further compliance with these orders.
Dr. Ziv Bohrer, a senior lecturer for international law at the Bar Ilan
University Faculty of Law and a researcher at the Begin Sadat Center for
Strategic Studies, said, however, that the IDF could reemphasize to soldiers and
commanders that they must abide by the laws of armed conflict, and include
details of these instructions in the report the ICJ ordered it to submit on the
measures it has taken to comply with the provisional measures.
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The fifth order instructs Israel “to prevent the destruction and ensure the
preservation of evidence” pertaining to allegations of genocide, which will also
not require much practically of Israel, and the sixth tells Israel to file a
report to the court one month from the ruling detailing the measures it has
taken.
It is the third and fourth orders where Israel will need to demonstrate that it
has taken real action to comply with the court.
The third order instructs Israel to do everything it can to “prevent and punish
the direct and public incitement to commit genocide,” while the fourth order
tells Israel to take immediate steps to “enable the provision of urgently needed
basic services and humanitarian assistance to address the adverse conditions of
life faced by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.”
‘…THE ADVERSE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FACED BY PALESTINIANS IN THE GAZA STRIP’
Bohrer said that the fourth order likely implies that Israel would need to show
it is doing more than it currently is to enable the entry of humanitarian aid
into Gaza.
In theory, this is a measure that should be relatively straightforward to comply
with.
Trucks of humanitarian aid have been entering Gaza since October 21, first
through the Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza and subsequently through the
Kerem Shalom crossing between Israel and Gaza since December 17.
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Trucks with aid arrive at the Gazan side of the Kerem Shalom border crossing, in
the southern Gaza Strip, on January 17, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
An average of 149 trucks of humanitarian aid have entered the territory every
day over the last four weeks up to January 25, according to the UN’s Office for
the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (compared to 500 a day before the war
began).
It appears that since the ICJ’s decision on Friday, significantly higher numbers
of trucks are already passing into Gaza, with 186 trucks passing through the
crossings this Sunday and Monday alone, OCHA has said.
According to the Defense Ministry’s Coordinator of Government Affairs in the
Territories (COGAT), 197 trucks entered Gaza on Tuesday.
Another issue is not only the entry of food, medicine and other humanitarian
supplies into the Strip but also its effective distribution amid the ongoing
hostilities, which has been a problem for UN agencies and aid groups on the
ground.
The IDF already institutes daily pauses in combat operations to allow
humanitarian aid to be distributed, and has done so from the beginning of the
conflict.
The significance of the ICJ’s concern regarding the level of humanitarian aid
going into Gaza should not be underestimated.
The court did not call on Israel to desist from acts of genocide but did cite
numerous officials from UN agencies and humanitarian organizations who have
commented on the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza and the severe effect it is
having, and may yet have, on the welfare of Palestinian civilians in the
territory.
It is possible, therefore, that the ICJ’s principal concern with Israel’s
actions in terms of the Genocide Convention is Article 2c of the treaty, which
prohibits “Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to
bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.”
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The court quoted the World Health Organization and UN agencies regarding what
they said was the extreme level of hunger in the territory and the potential for
the spread of infectious disease, which could lead to massive loss of life.
Ordering Israel to alleviate the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip is
therefore likely intended to ensure that Israel does not violate Article 2c, and
compliance with that provisional measure is therefore of critical concern for
Israel.
Displaced Palestinians flee from Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on
January 30, 2024. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)
Speaking during a session of the UN Security Council on Wednesday called to
review the ICJ’s provisional ruling, Brett Jonathan Miller, Israel’s deputy
permanent representative to the UN, insisted that “Israel remains committed to
mitigating civilian harm and to facilitating access to humanitarian aid
according to the law, despite all the challenges,” noting that Hamas theft of
such consignments is widespread.
Hebrew media has reported that assessments given to Benny Gantz, a war cabinet
minister, and Gadi Eisenkot, a war cabinet observer, have estimated that as much
as 60 percent of aid trucks entering Gaza are being hijacked by Hamas.
INCITEMENT TO GENOCIDE
The third order, to prevent and punish incitement to genocide, will potentially
be more difficult.
Article 3c of the Genocide Convention states: “Direct and public incitement to
commit genocide” is a punishable act, so here again it is crucial that Israel
comply with this provisional measure.
The ICJ’s decision cited the comments of three senior Israeli officials in
relation to the allegations made by South Africa that Israel has failed to
prevent and publish incitement to genocide.
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In particular, it quoted comments by Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, President
Isaac Herzog, and Foreign Minister Israel Katz (at the time energy minister).
The ICJ decision quoted Gallant as saying “I have released all restraints . . .
You saw what we are fighting against. We are fighting human animals. This is the
ISIS of Gaza. This is what we are fighting against . . . Gaza won’t return to
what it was before. There will be no Hamas. We will eliminate everything. If it
doesn’t take one day, it will take a week, it will take weeks or even months, we
will reach all places.”
This citation appears to mostly rely on the incomplete quotes cited by the South
African application.
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant speaks to troops near the Gaza border, October 19,
2023. (Ariel Hermoni/ Defense Ministry)
The remarks in question were made by Gallant on October 10, but he was not fully
quoted either by the South Africans or by the ICJ.
During those comments to soldiers at an IDF base in the Gaza border region,
Gallant made clear on several occasions that his bellicose remarks were directed
toward Hamas and combatants. Parts of Gallant’s speech not included by South
Africa or the ICJ include “we will eliminate Hamas,” “we will kill everyone who
fought us,” and “Gaza will not return to what it was. Hamas won’t exist.”
Herzog was quoted by the ICJ as saying, “It is an entire nation out there that
is responsible. It is not true this rhetoric about civilians not aware, not
involved. It is absolutely not true,” and that “when a nation protects its home
it fights, and we will fight until we’ll break their backbone.”
He made these remarks during a press conference on October 12, but also repeated
on three occasions during that event that Israel was operating and would operate
according to international law, only one of which was cited by the ICJ.
The court also cited a post on X by Katz, who wrote on October 13: “We will
fight the terrorist organization Hamas and destroy it. All the civilian
population in gaza [sic] is ordered to leave immediately. We will win. They will
not receive a drop of water or a single battery until they leave the world.”
The South African application included numerous other inflammatory comments made
both by cabinet ministers and MKs, as well as musicians, journalists, former
MKs, and former senior IDF officials, among others.
To comply with the ICJ order, it would appear that Attorney General Gali
Baharav-Miara would have to open investigations and potentially prosecute those
deemed to have engaged in incitement to genocide.
The court noted that just days before the hearings in The Hague, the Attorney
General’s Office issued a statement saying that several incidents of possible
incitement to harm civilians were being examined by her office.
Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends a conference of the Israeli chapter
of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) in Tel Aviv, July 5, 2022.
(Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
Dr. Assaf Shapira of the Israel Democracy Institute said he did not believe that
any of the comments by government ministers made since October 7 actually
amounted to calls for genocide.
But another complication is that sitting MKs and cabinet ministers enjoy
“substantive immunity” from prosecution for committing a criminal offense if it
was committed as part of their job, including criminal speech, which could make
efforts to prosecute them for incitement more difficult
Shapira said, however, that an express call for the murder of civilians would be
a criminal offense that would not be covered by substantive immunity.
But Bar-Ilan’s Bohrer noted that although even incitement to genocide is not
protected speech, “where the line passes between incitement and free speech is
not always clear.”
Baharav-Miara would also likely face a firestorm of criticism from the
government if she opened an investigation into a cabinet minister, which might
once again spark the kind of tensions seen between her, the judiciary and the
government before the October 7 atrocities and the outbreak of war.
Still, she is entirely independent in terms of the discretion she has to open
criminal investigations of elected officials.
Dr. Gal Levertov, a former director of the international division of the State
Attorney’s Office, said it would be easier for the attorney general to prosecute
public personalities who expressed potentially genocidal rhetoric than elected
officials.
These could include comments such as those of former MK Moshe Feiglin, who
posted on X that Israel should “flatten Gaza,” or journalist David Mizrahy
Verthaim who said, also on X, that Israel should “turn the entire Strip into a
slaughterhouse,” both of which were cited by the South African application.
But Levertov said that to prosecute only those who do not have immunity while
failing to prosecute elected officials because of their parliamentary immunity
could be seen as especially unjust and problematic in terms of public
legitimacy.
Bohrer noted that there are also other ways to mitigate the damage done by
intemperate comments. The Attorney General’s Office could, for example, ask
those who have made such a remark to either clarify that they did not mean to
imply that they were advocating genocide or, in a case where the remarks cannot
be understood in any other way, to fully retract them.
President Isaac Herzog speaks to foreign journalists at his residence in
Jerusalem on October 12, 2023. (Amy Spiro/Times of Israel)
Following the publication of the ICJ orders on Friday, Herzog did issue some
clarifying comments, although he also denounced the court and said he was
“disgusted by the way they twisted my words, using very, very partial and
fragmented quotes.”
Herzog went on to say in his clarification that “there are also innocent
Palestinians in Gaza,” and explained that his comments about broader
responsibility by Palestinians related to “the involvement of many residents of
Gaza in the slaughter, in the looting, and in the riots of October 7,” and “how
the crowds in Gaza cheered at the sight of Israelis being slaughtered and their
bodies mutilated.”
Levertov says that in order to be in compliance by the deadline for the report
that the ICJ has requested, it would be sufficient for the attorney general to
demonstrate that she has merely opened investigations into possible incidents of
incitement to genocide.
Further down the line, if the court requests further reports, the attorney
general would likely have to detail the nature of the investigations and either
point to any indictments arising from them as evidence that Israel is seeking to
prevent and punish incitement to genocide, or if cases are closed without
indictments demonstrate there was no room for prosecution.
During the UN Security Council meeting on Wednesday, Miller insisted that Israel
“makes rigorous efforts to draw the line between permissible statements, even
those that express pain and outrage in times of crisis, and those which go
beyond the limits of free speech.”
He also pointed to the Attorney General office’s statement that calling for
intentional harm to civilians may amount to a criminal offense and that several
cases are currently being examined by Israel’s law enforcement authorities.
The report, which is due by February 26, will likely be written by the Justice
Ministry, and include input from the International Law Department of the
Military Advocate General Corps in the IDF, along with the Foreign Ministry and
the defense team that represented Israel in the ICJ.
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