As Israel starve Gaza, are the ICJ finally to take some action?

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The ICJ has again been called upon by South Africa to take further action against Israel in the wake of Gaza starvation.
Right, so South Africa is taking a third turn at the International Court of Justice, having submitted an emergency request for further provisional measures and modification of the ICJ’s ruling, this time in light of the starvation being inflicted on the Gazan people. Having successfully proven their case at the end of January, with the ICJ indicating a plausible case for genocide against Israel, an attempt last month for further measures failed, with the ICJ simply urging Israel to follow the letter of their January judgement, so will things be different this time as Israel continue to blatantly disregard those rulings, having already publicly denounced them and stating that they will not follow them?
Right, so it was really disappointing stuff last month when the International Court of Justice, in light of the continued and relentless genocide in Gaza being committed by Israel and in light of the provisional orders they themselves had laid down against Israel, that they chose not to use additional powers within their possession to mete out further constraints on Israel. I have no doubt at all that they would ignore them, but it heaps further pressure on other countries still aiding them or still sitting on their hands to pull their fingers out and do something about this ongoing humanitarian disaster. So what has changed this time, that South Africa think will make a difference?
Well for one, at the point of South Africa’s submission, Israel were still within that one month period the ICJ had given them to report on the actions they had taken in order to demonstrate they were taking notice of the ICJ rulings and provisional orders, that time has now well passed and Israel have indeed made a submission, but it’s not been made public. This is somewhat annoying, given it is no doubt a pack of lies that deserve to be shredded by the world, they left it until the last day they had, which was the 26th of February, but none of it’s contents have been disclosed except to the ICJ themselves. Now, if they decide this is demonstrably nonsense as I would hope they would, could that sway them in South Africa’s direction now? Certainly South Africa can and have in their latest submission pointed to their second request dated the 12th February, which concerned Rafah, concerned a lot of indication of where Israel were not meeting the terms of the ICJ’s provisional orders from their ruling dated the 26th January, from South Africa’s first submission, but one of the defining aspects of the genocide certainly over the last month, has been the starvation, images of children having starved to death pervading social media and this has served as the basis for South Africa’s latest attempt at getting further provisional orders placed upon Israel. The latest submission is considerably shorter than we’ve seen previously and it reads:
‘The Republic of South Africa submits an urgent request for the indication of additional provisional measures and the modification of the Court’s prior provisional measures Order and decision...

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