The ICJ today ruled to reaffirm its previous rulings and issue new orders to Israel to cease its Rafah offensive. The Order of the Court: “reaffirms the provisional measures indicated in its Orders of 26 January 2024 and 28 March 2024, which should be immediately and effectively implemented” and ordered Israel to “immediately halt its military offensive, and any other action in the Rafah Governorate, which may inflict on the Palestinian group in Gaza conditions of life that could bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.”

The ICJ additionally ordered Israel to open the Rafah crossing to Egypt “for unhindered provision at scale of urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance” and to “take effective measures to ensure the unimpeded access to the Gaza Strip of any commission of inquiry, fact-finding mission or other investigative body mandated by competent organs of the United Nations to investigate allegations of genocide.” It also ordered Israel to report back in one month.

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Order of the Court

Selection of mainstream media coverage of the ICJ’s order to Israel