The ICJ

On three different news programs today I heard commentators say that the ICJ has ordered Israel to leave Rafah.

That is not accurate. The ruling actually stated ... "Israel must immediately halt its military offense and any other action in the Rafah governate which may inflict on the Palestinian group in Gaza conditions of life that could bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part".

From Reuters ...

World Court's order on Rafah does not rule out entire offensive, Israel says

Israel considers that an order by the World Court to halt its military offensive on Rafah in southern Gaza allows room for some military action there, Israeli officials said ....

"What they are asking us, is not to commit genocide in Rafah. We did not commit genocide and we will not commit genocide," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's national security adviser, Tzachi Hanegbi, told Israel's N12 TV on Saturday.

Asked whether the Rafah offensive would continue, Hanegbi said: "According to international law, we have the right to defend ourselves and the evidence is that the court is not preventing us from continuing to defend ourselves." ...

David Horovitz of The Times of Israel spoke aboit this on today's daily briefing ...



I fear, though, that the world will hear what it wants to hear in the ICJ ruling, as it has done with all the other information that's been reported about Israel since Oct 7 ... Hamas has won the information war.