The Intercept website published a report highlighting how Israel ignores the International Court of Justice's order to prevent and punish acts leading to genocide.

The report, written by Prem Thakur, said that Israeli atrocities against Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank and prisons continued during the week following the court's decision.

He explained that Israeli forces killed at least 874 Palestinians and wounded at least 1,490 in Gaza during the aforementioned period, not to mention other Israeli acts of violence in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem.

The horror continues

The report says that the horror continues, noting also that a mass grave containing 30 bodies, handcuffed and blindfolded, was found in a school in northern Gaza.

The report quotes a 6-year-old girl who saw Israeli forces in Gaza shooting and killing her family inside the car she was traveling in. It talks about an Israeli soldier filming himself in the city of Khan Yunis, echoing Netanyahu’s speech about the biblical “story of Amalek.” Where “God commands the killing” of an entire community are comments that helped South African lawyers demonstrate Israel’s genocidal intent.

The report indicated that a young Palestinian man was chained, forced to wear a military uniform, and used as a human shield during a raid on a refugee camp in occupied Jerusalem, and that Israeli soldiers stormed a hospital in the West Bank and executed 3 sick Palestinians by shooting them “in the head at close range.”

Humiliation of the Palestinians

He also referred to the testimonies of the Palestinians who were released about being subjected to humiliation at home and showing signs of torture on their bodies. One of the clips showed an Israeli soldier forcing the kidnapped Palestinians to praise his family and say that they would be their slaves.

The report pointed to what it described as the broader misery faced by the entire population; 19,000 children were orphaned, and famine forced Palestinians to eat grass and drink polluted water.

American support for Israel’s continuation of its practices

The report cited American statements that support Israel’s continuation of committing the same crimes that it was ordered to stop practicing, referring to what US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said that the ministry believes that accusations of genocide are unfounded, stressing its continued support for “Israel’s right.” "In taking measures to ensure that terrorist attacks do not recur, but in a manner that is fully consistent with international humanitarian law."

The writer added that when Miller was asked about Israel receiving aid even at a time when Israeli government officials are calling for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, he replied that Secretary of State Anthony Blinken made clear in his recent visit to Israel that he believes it is important for the Israeli government to speak out publicly against these matters and to reiterate that forcing Palestinians to leave Gaza is not the policy of the Israeli government.

Preventing aid from entering Gaza

Thacker concluded his report with what Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said that allowing aid to enter Gaza conflicts with the goals of the Israeli campaign, and with a call from Ministers Benny Gantz and Gadi Eisenkot to also limit humanitarian aid, and the Israelis congregating at aid crossings trying to prevent aid trucks from entering Gaza. Hundreds of thousands of people are at risk of starvation and malnutrition every day since the International Court of Justice ruling.

Source: The Intercept+ Aljazeera