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Nawaf Salam: From ICJ president to Lebanese prime minister

The former professor and diplomat was elected to oversee the International Court of Justice in The Hague less than a year before his country came calling. Who is he, and how will he approach his task?

Elie Kossaifi 19 January 2025
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Palestinian Authority Riyad al-Maliki (R) at the International Court of Justice at a hearing on the legal consequences of the Israeli occupation on February 19, 2024, in The Hague. AFP

Israeli occupation on trial at the Hague

A second case against Israel has been put to the International Court of Justice. This time, dozens of states decry its constant breach of international law and call for an end to its impunity.

Bryn Haworth 24 February 2024

ICJ ruling on Israel's 'genocidal' war in Gaza draws mixed response

Fares Garabet 29 January 2024
Israel's Legal Counselor Tal Becker, lawyer Malcolm Shaw, and Gilad Noam, Deputy Attorney-General attend the ICJ prior to the hearing on the genocide case against Israel in The Hague on January 11, 2024. AFP

Composition of Israeli defence team at ICJ shows it takes genocide case seriously

South Africa has accused Israel of attempting to carry out a genocide in Gaza in a case that has received wide global backing

Michael Horowitz 12 January 2024
In a document of over 80 pages – which makes for very grim reading – an exhaustive legal case compiled by South Africa is elaborated against Israel’s vicious behaviour. Sara Gironi Carnevale

UN court hears South Africa genocide case against Israel

In a document of over 80 pages – which makes for very grim reading – an exhaustive legal case compiled by South Africa and presented to the ICJ is elaborated against Israel's vicious war on Gaza.

Bryn Haworth 11 January 2024
Palestinian and Israeli activists gather in front of Israeli settler’s house during a demonstration against the expulsion of Palestinian families from their homes, in the Palestinian neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem on April 16, 2021. (Getty)

Palestinian Claim to Jerusalem Area Backed by Legal Docs and Human Rights

As Egyptian-brokered cease-fire is announced between Israel and Palestinians in Gaza, just as Majalla was readying for publication, the case of Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood witnesses its residents’…

Amal Shahada 22 May 2021
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As Americans rethink the moral—and strategic—calculus of US support for Israel, politicians are scrambling to keep pace

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Al Majalla examines key developments in the US and across the globe less than a year into Trump's second presidential term

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