Qatar’s ambassador to the Netherlands, Mutlaq al-Qahtani, told the ICJ that Israel is waging a “genocidal war” in Palestine, intensifying West Bank settlements and blocking life-saving aid, leaving Gaza in famine-like conditions. He accused Israel of weaponising aid, targeting humanitarian workers, and dismantling UNRWA, the backbone of Gaza’s aid. On 2 March, Israel severed all food, water, and aid access, imposing collective punishment and destroying “an entire generation” of Palestinians.
Al Jazeera’s Rory Challands reported that al-Qahtani’s emotional speech highlighted Israel’s creation of a humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza and its unlawful campaign against UNRWA. Challands stressed that Israel’s obstruction of aid violates international law, using it as “a weapon of war and tool of extortion.
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