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To learn more about all ICJ cases related to the question of Palestine, click here to visit the dedicated webpage.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n 20 May 2024<\/p>\n Written reply of the State of Israel – 18 May 2024<\/a><\/p>\n 1. On 10 May 2024, South Africa sought the modification and indication of provisional measures pursuant to Article 41 of the Statute of the Court, and Articles 75 and 76 of the Rules of the Court. The application was lodged in response to \u201cthe situation brought about by the Israeli assault on Rafah, and the extreme risk it poses to humanitarian supplies and basic services into Gaza, to the survival of the Palestinian medical system, and to the very survival of Palestinians in Gaza as a group\u201d (\u201810 May Request\u2019). Oral hearings were held in relation to the 10 May Request on 16 and 17 May 2024. At the conclusion of the oral hearings, Judge Nolte addressed a question to Israel in the following terms:<\/p>\n \u201cCan Israel provide information about the existing humanitarian conditions in the designated evacuation zones, in particular Al-Mawasi, and how it would ensure safe passage to these zones, as well as the provision of shelter, food, water and other humanitarian aid and assistance to all evacuees that are, and can be expected to arrive, in these zones?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n 2. Israel filed its Reply by 6:00 pm on Saturday 18 May 2024 (\u2018Israel\u2019s Reply\u2019), pursuant to the Court\u2019s direction. South Africa was invited to submit any comments that it might wish to make in response to Israel\u2019s Reply by 12:00 pm on Monday 20 May 2024. These comments are submitted in accordance with that invitation.<\/p>\n 3. South Africa requests that both Israel\u2019s Reply and these comments are published on the Court\u2019s website, as is the usual practice. Israel\u2019s Reply purports to express information that Israel suggests has been made publicly available to Palestinian evacuees and \u201crelevant stakeholders\u201d and \u201cvarious international organizations operating in the humanitarian area\u201d as part of its efforts to \u201cfacilitate the evacuation of. . .civilian[s]\u201d from Rafah, such that there could be no conceivable principled objection to publication. Israel’s claimed efforts, and South Africa’s comments thereon, concern obligations binding upon all parties to the Genocide Convention, as do the responses to Israel\u2019s military operations by various United Nations bodies and international humanitarian organisations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To learn more about all ICJ cases related to the question of Palestine, click here to visit the dedicated webpage. 20 May 2024 Written reply of the State of Israel – 18 May 2024 I. Introduction: 1. 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