by Carl Osgood, Dennis Small (EIRNS) — Jan. 27, 2024
The UN Security Council will be meeting next week on the Gaza war. The Wednesday, Jan. 31 meeting, AFP reported today, was called by Algeria, whose ministry of foreign affairs said it would give “binding effect to the pronouncement of the International Court of Justice on the provisional measures imposed on the Israeli occupation.”
“The Permanent Mission of Algeria to the United Nations has received instructions from the President of the Republic, Mr. Abdelmadjid Tebboune, to request a meeting of the Security Council as soon as possible to activate the ruling of the International Court of Justice on the provisional measures imposed on the Israeli occupation,” the statement read. Algeria believes that the ICJ’s ruling will mark the beginning of the end to the “era of impunity” in Israel’s actions against Palestine.
The decision “gives the clear message that in order to do all the things that they are asking for, you need a ceasefire for it to happen,” Palestinian Ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour said. “So fasten your seat belts,” he said, hinting that the Arab Group, represented on the Security Council by Algeria, would push for one.