Nicaragua and Germany are signatories to the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Nicaragua has initiated a procedure for Germany to suspend the supply of weapons, prevent those already supplied from being used in Gaza.
This is the third case that reaches the ICJ in the middle of the Gaza war. The first, initiated by South Africa, has given rise to two admonitions for Israel to guarantee supplies and the security of the population, while the second, merely consultative on the consequences of the occupation, has staged the international consensus in favor of the Palestinian State. The request for precautionary measures joins other resolutions from different United Nations organizations in the pressure on Netanyahu to declare a definitive truce. The arguments against Nicaragua are solid and their democratic legitimacy is incomparable. Unlike the United States, it accepts without reservation the jurisdiction of the court and the binding nature of its rulings. And it only needs the recognition of Palestinian State to protect its “reason of State” and break the growing polarization between the so-called global south and the liberal West.