Germany did not stop supporting Israel even after ICJ ruling, Nicaragua tells ICJ

The legal expert for the Nicaraguan delegation took the floor in the International Court of Justice (ICJ), as Nicaragua presents its case against Germany before the World Court in the Hague.

“My task this morning is to set out some of the facts underlying the dispute between Nicaragua and the Federal Republic [of Germany] brought before the court,” said the legal expert Daniel Muller on behalf of the Nicaraguan delegation.

He said Germany has not stopped supporting Israel with aid and weapons even after the ICJ's ruling, in response to South Africa’s genocide case against Israel, in which it ordered Israel to prevent genocide and provide the needed humanitarian aid to the Strip.

Nicaragua has demanded that the ICJ order provisional measures calling upon Germany to immediately stop its military aid to Israel and resume its UNRWA funding.

"Germany is responsible for breaching international law and its international duties related to the situation in Gaza," Muller says.

Muller mentioned a statement by German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on 24 March, in which the situation in Gaza was described as "hell," saying that aid delivery has to be resumed.

In a 43-page submission to the court, Nicaragua argues that Berlin has breached the 1948 UN Genocide Convention.