Top UN court rejects bid to force Germany to stop arming Israel – POLITICO

Western intelligence officials and diplomats told POLITICO they believed Nicaragua brought the case against Germany to the U.N. Supreme Court at Moscow’s behest, speculating that Russia planned to undermine the authority of the International Court of Justice by making it a platform for misleading legal arguments.

Germany has rejected Nicaragua’s claims, with Tania von Uslar-Gleichen, director of international law at the German Foreign Ministry, saying that “they have no factual or legal basis.”

In January, South Africa accused Israel of committing genocide in a separate case in the same court. The International Court of Justice did not accept that claim in a preliminary ruling, but warned Israel to ensure that its forces do not commit genocide in their war with Hamas.