Thread by @AnneHerzberg14

Currently listening to the opinion. Unsurprisingly, the Court minimizes the scope and scale of the October 7 attack and the launching of a 7-front war against Israel. At the same time it uses hyperbolic language to describe Israeli military operations, ignoring the massive Hamas tunnel network and destruction resulting from its embedding in civilian infrastructure.

https://x.com/AnneHerzberg14/status/1980983154061255130

Your reminder that the ICJ is the UN’s court. Its “evidence” primarily relies on UN reports (even from the likes of UNRWA and Francesca Albanese), accepts UN claims as a given without verification, and will not do anything to disrupt the UN’s desire to manipulate and maintain control over the aid system in Gaza. There will be no accountability from the ICJ or any associated organs for the role of UN agencies and employees in aiding and abetting Hamas’ military build-up and the war. It will do nothing, unless forced by US, Israel, and other responsible states, to prevent Hamas and other terrorists from taking over again.

Another reminder: the UNGA question referred to the Court only sought and opinion on Israel’s obligations. So yet again, the UN set up a biased framing to solely target Israel. It also demonstrates how yet again, the entire intl community and aid industry absolves itself from any responsibility for financing and supporting Hamas and the situation they enabled in Gaza for 20 years.

Hostile states responsible for this exploitation of intl institutions include @NorwayMFA, Turkey, Qatar, South Africa @PresidencyZA, and @Brazil_UN_NY

When the Court claims they didn’t find evidence of links between UNRWA and Hamas, you should remember again, the ICJ remains willfully blind. 🙈🙊🙉

No one should be surprised in the slightest when the ICJ claims it is supposedly “international law” that the UN can do whatever it wants, whenever it wants, wherever it wants, and taxpayers will have to continue bankrolling its slush fund with billions of dollars without any regulations and without any real oversight. This folks, is the definition of impunity.

The written opinion whitewashes the role of UNRWA in radicalizing Gaza’s population and complicity between the agency and Hamas. It also grossly overstates the “investigations” conducted by OIOS and Colonna. The UN is incapable of policing itself.

This paragraph is so rich: the UN relies “extensively” on local personnel and therefore, Israel is obligated to not interfere with them. Sums up the corruption of the entire Gaza aid industry. A WSJ study found UNRWA had a higher percentage of Hamas members than Gaza’s general population. Hamas surveilled and took over the UN agencies and intl NGOs, and then freely operated under their cover. ICJ is essentially greenlighting the strategy through which terrorists take over intl aid mechanisms.