Borrell asks the 27 to promote compliance with the ICJ order after Israeli attacks on the camp in Rafá

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BRUSSELS, May 27. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell, asked this Monday to defend the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and promote compliance with its orders after Israel’s new attacks on Rafá.

In statements prior to the meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels, the head of European diplomacy stressed that the bloc is facing a “dilemma” about how to achieve compliance with ICJ orders. “We must express not only respect, but also ask for the application of the Court’s decisions,” he said.

“We do not have magical powers, but the important thing is to see what the position of the Member States is on the implementation of the court’s order. We have to see what we think and how the Member States can react,” he indicated.

All after regretting that Israel has continued the military offensive against Rafá despite the contrary order from the ICJ and that Hamas has launched rockets against Tel Aviv in the last hours. “No one respects the court order,” she criticized.

At least 35 people have died in an Israeli bombardment on the Barakasat displaced persons center, in the Gaza region of Rafá, as reported this Sunday by the Government of the enclave, noting that the majority of the victims are children and women.

Borrell has also insisted on the defense of the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, following his request to issue an arrest warrant against the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, for war crimes in the Gaza Strip, al point out that their work must be respected and the agency should be allowed to work without “intimidation” while it studies the chief prosecutor’s initiative.

Along these lines, he has rejected the accusations of anti-Semitism against Khan, insisting that they are “unacceptable” and are “too important and burdensome” to be used lightly. Borrell has regretted that these attacks are used “every time someone thinks something that Benjamin Netanyahu’s Government does not like.”

For all these reasons, he has called on the EU to “use the same approach” in the Middle East as in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “What happens in one war and another must be considered on the same basis,” she summarized.