What is the rest of the international order? For over 500 days, Israel, made possible by a powerful country providing diplomatic cover, military hardware and political support, is a systematic violation of Gaza’s international law. This accomplice has devastated the fundamental principles of integrity and human rights, equality of sovereignty, and prohibiting genocide. The system that allows the killing of an estimated 61,000 people has not only failed, but has failed.
The evidence is live streamed to our phones and evaluated by the world’s topcoats is clear. From the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice regarding the illegal occupation of Israel’s Palestinian territory to arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for Israel’s top leaders, to the preliminary measures issued in the genocide treaty lawsuit filed by South Africa, Israel’s actions constitute a clear violation of international law.
But despite these judgments, violations are made possible and violated by countries that bravely challenge the world’s topcoat, accompanied by open rebellion of sanctions and court orders against ICC officials, employees and agents.
US President Donald Trump’s recent proposal to “take over” Gaza — implies ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, suggesting that Trump should be deported to Egypt and Jordan — will be stricken by the foundations of international law, where the global community has a duty to defend. Such actions, when pursued, would constitute a serious violation of international law and the fundamental principles engraved in the UN Charter.
The attacks on the Palestinian people reflect a dark chapter in our country’s history. South Africa is Colombia, a part of the rebellion, under apartheid, and is under colonial rule Malaysia. These struggles remind us that they are threats to justice everywhere and everywhere. We may come from different continents, but we share the confidence that complacency is an accomplice to such crimes. The defense of Palestinians’ invincible rights to self-determination is a collective responsibility.
In September 2024, the UN General Assembly adopted a historic resolution outlined the state’s legal obligations to ensure the end of Israel’s illegal occupation.
So, alongside Bolivia, Colombia, Honduras and Namibia, they launched the Hague Group, a coalition that promises to take critical and coordinated actions to pursue accountability for Israeli crime.
The Hague Group’s three inauguration commitments are driven by twin orders, the end of immunity and the defense of humanity.
Our government will comply with warrants issued by the ICC against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Joa Gallant, highlighting appropriate, fair and independent investigations and prosecutions at the national or international level. We will ensure that ships carrying military supplies to Israel do not use our ports. It also prevents any weapon transfers at risk that allow for further violations of humanitarian law.
In an interconnected world, mechanisms of fraud are found in the structure of global supply chains. Advanced weapons cannot be built without metals, components, technology and logistics networks spanning the continent. By adjusting policies, it aims to create breakwaters to protect international law.
The purpose of these efforts is not to undermine multilateralism. It’s about saving that. Just as the international community once united in dismantling South Africa’s apartheid, through similarly coordinated legal, economic and diplomatic pressures – we must now unite to enforce international law and protect the right to self-determining the invincible rights of the Palestinian people. An alternative is to surrender to a world where, by itself, may decide which laws are important and other laws are free to violate.
Recent hostilities, hostage exchanges and the return of displaced families are welcome steps towards a peaceful resolution of this unbearable catastrophe. But ceasefires have already proven vulnerable, and our collective responsibility to ensure lasting peace is now violently and urgent.
The international system cannot withstand when it is undermined by people who use veto and sanctions to protect their allies from scrutiny or use aid and trade as tools of coercion. The threat of punishment is intended to force the state to retreat to the language of pleas. We cannot remain passive, and we cannot be forced to expose “calls” and “requests” while destroying the principles of justice that underpins the international order.
We believe in the claim, not the plea. The choice is strict. They either act together to enforce international law or risk its collapse. We choose to act not only for the people of Gaza, but for the future of a world where justice is maxed out immunity.
Let us mark this moment as the beginning of a new commitment to internationalism and the principles that bind us as a global community.
Source: Foreign policy