{"id":18399,"date":"2024-02-16T06:16:13","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T06:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=18399"},"modified":"2024-02-16T06:16:13","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T06:16:13","slug":"israel-asks-world-court-to-reject-request-for-rafah-emergency-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/02\/israel-asks-world-court-to-reject-request-for-rafah-emergency-orders\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel asks World Court to reject request for Rafah emergency orders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\"><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; Israel has asked the International Court of Justice to dismiss a request by South Africa to issue additional emergency measures because of Israel&#8217;s plan to extend its offensive in Gaza into the city of Rafah.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-1\">In documents released on Thursday by the ICJ, also known as the World Court, Israel argued that the emergency measures issued three weeks ago already cover &#8220;the situation of hostilities in Gaza as a whole&#8221; and the court should reject the South African request.<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"paragraph-1\">\n<p>Israel has said it is planning to expand its ground assault into Rafah, where over a million Palestinians have sought refuge from the offensive that has laid waste to much of the Gaza Strip since Hamas militants attacked Israel on Oct. 7.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week South Africa asked the court to issue extra emergency measures to protect Palestinians&#8217; rights in Rafah.<\/p>\n<p>The ICJ last month ordered Israel to take all measures within its power to prevent its troops from committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, in a case brought by South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has denied all allegations of genocide in connection with its war against Islamist armed group Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>It was not clear when the judges will rule on South Africa&#8217;s latest request or whether they will call additional hearings to consider it.<\/p>\n<h6><em><strong>SOURCE: REUTERS<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; Israel has asked the International Court of Justice to dismiss a request by South Africa to issue additional emergency measures because of Israel&#8217;s plan to extend its offensive in Gaza into the city of Rafah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":18400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,1,984,979,194,982,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-0_swnen","category-news","category-humanitarian-crisis","category-world","category-international","category-politics_"],"views":50,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18399"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18402,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18399\/revisions\/18402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}