Nicaragua has urged the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to allow its case against Germany to continue, saying its arms exports to Israel violate the 1948 Genocide Convention and humanitarian law, as they were used in the genocidal war on Gaza.
The appeal came on Tuesday as public hearings on the preliminary objections raised by Germany took place in The Hague. Germany told the court on Monday that the case was improperly filed and should be thrown out.
Two years have passed since Nicaragua filed the case against Germany for “facilitating” the genocide in Gaza. Germany is the second-largest supplier of arms to Israel after the United States.
Nicaragua’s top lawyer, Carlos Jose Arguello Gomez, told the court that “it is impossible” Germany was not aware of the “serious risk that acts that could amount to genocide were being committed by Israel”.
Germany suspended all military exports to Israel in August last year, but resumed a few months later, referencing the stability of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas. Israel continued daily deadly attacks on Gaza immediately following the ceasefire.
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