On Tuesday the International Court of Justice, the UN’s highest judicial body, he rejected the procedure with which on 8 April Nicaragua had asked the Court itself to impose emergency measures against Germany to prevent it from continuing to supply weapons to Israel. The Court rejected the requests with 15 votes in favor and one against because, “on the basis of the factual information and legal arguments presented by the parties”, it considered that it did not have sufficient elements available to apply provisional measures.
Germany is Israel’s second largest arms supplier after the United States. According to the accusation, the country was “facilitating a genocide” by sending military equipment and suspending funding to UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, which was later partially restored. In recent weeks, Germany had defended itself with two main strategies. On the one hand he tried to promptly dismantle Nicaragua’s accusations, arguing that, since the beginning of the war, arms sales to Israel had almost exclusively concerned military equipment and defensive, but not lethal, weapons; on the other hand, it highlighted how the country perceives it as a historical duty to support the state of Israel because of the Holocaust, while respecting international law.
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