Proceedings instituted by the Republic of Nicaragua against the Federal Republic of Germany at ICJ

On 1 March 2024, the Republic of Nicaragua filed an application against Germany at the International Court of Justice. In the application, Nicaragua requested the Court to adjudge and declare that Germany by its conduct, with respect to the serious violations of peremptory norms of international law taking place in the Occupied Palestinian Territories:

a) has not only failed to fulfil its obligation to prevent the genocide committed and being committed against the Palestinian people – including those in its component part in the Gaza Strip – but has contributed to the commission of genocide in violation of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (hereinafter “Genocide Convention”);

b) has failed to comply with its obligations under international humanitarian law, derived both from the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and its Protocols of 1977 and from the intransgressible principles of international humanitarian law, by not respecting its obligations to ensure respect for these fundamental norms in all circumstances;

c) has failed to comply with other peremptory norms of general international law in particular by rendering aid or assistance in maintaining the illegal situation of the continued military occupation of Palestine including its ongoing, unlawful attack in Gaza;

d) has failed to comply with other peremptory norms of general international law in particular by rendering aid or assistance and not preventing the illegal regime of apartheid and the negation of the right of self-determination of the Palestinian people.