South Africa, huge fucking heroes on a historic scale. 🇿🇦

ICJ orders Israel must:
- Take all necessary measures to avoid commission of acts as listed under Article 2
- Ensure military forces don't commit those acts
- Prosecute incitement of genocide
- Allow basic services
- Protect evidence

They say these findings create legally binding requirements. The votes were not close. 15-2, 16-1 for some findings.

Again, impossible to imagine Israel doing this. They're already in violation of dozens of UN rulings. Still a blow to their standing, imo

The court orders Israel must return within a month with evidence they are in compliance. Which leaves the door open for more findings and evidence to be presented.

Judge Donoghue: ICJ will not make a decision on whether or not genocide occurred now, but rather it will make a decision on the possibility of genocide occurring.

And that is what they just did. Sounds a bit like the ents agreeing that the hobbits are not orcs. But according to what I read, this is pretty fast for this court.

People are saying this is a win for Israel bc it doesn't call for an immediate ceasefire, but unless I'm mistaken, that was not going to happen today regardless. They first had to rule that a genocide was likely taking place.

And this isn't the end. The proceedings will keep going. Israel will have more bad days in court.

It's going to take a lot more than some bad days in court to stop them, but this keeps the pressure on their gov't, and the scrutiny was getting to them before this finding