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_Published 2024-05-24. The top United Nations court ordered Israel on Friday to immediately halt its military offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah — but stopped short of ordering a cease-fire for the enclave. While Israel is unlikely to comply with the order, it will ratchet up the pressure on the increasingly isolated country._


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Court is not convinced that the evacuation efforts and related measures that Israel affirms to have undertaken to enhance the security of civilians in the Gaza strip, and in particular, those recently displaced from the Rafa governor are sufficient to alleviate the immense risk to which the Palestinian population is exposed as a result of the military offensive in Rafa. The Court observed that Israel has not provided sufficient information concerning the safety of the population during the evacuation process. All the availability in Almaas area of the necessary amount of water, sanitation, food, medicine, and shelter for the 800,000 Palestinians that have evacuated far.

Okay. Consequently, the court is of view that Israel has not sufficiently addressed and dispel the concern raised by its military offensive in RFA. In light of the consideration set out in the preceding sections of the order, and taking account of the provisional measures indicated in its orders of January 26, 2024 and March 28, 2024, the court finds that the current situation arising from Israel's military offensive in RAFA entails a further risk of irreparable prejudice to the plausible rights claimed by South Africa and that there is urgency in the sense that there exists a real and imminent risk that shuts prejudiced will be caused before the Court gives its final decision.

The Court considers that in conformity with the obligations under the Genocide Convention. Israel must immediately hold its military offenses and any other action in the Rafa governor which may inflict on the Palestinian group in Gaza conditions of life that could bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.

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