Opinion: How the ICJ ruling could finally break Israel's siege of Gaza

David Hearst, Middle East Eye's editor-in-chief, believes that the ICJ's ruling could finally break Israel's siege on Gaza, and even pressure its western allies to start aid drops into the enclave themselves. 

He writes: "This judgement re-establishes the morality, impartiality and standing of international law, and will show the impunity that Israel has been granted by its major arms suppliers and backers for what it is: a license to kill.

There can be no bigger hole knocked through the position of a US administration that bogusly claimed “diplomacy is back”, and then went on to to defend and furnish the most murderous bombardment in the recent history of this conflict.

Israel is now in the dock on a charge of genocide and will be obliged to report back to the court in a month, for its accuser South Africa to review, on the measures it has taken to prevent incitement to genocide and genocide itself and to allow more aid into Gaza."

You can read the full column below. 

Opinion: How the ICJ ruling could finally break Israel's siege of Gaza