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FILE - A view of the peace Palace housing the International Court of Justice, the UN's top court, is seen, Feb. 2, 2024, in The Hague, Netherlands. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

U.S. defends Israel against South Africa’s allegation of genocide filed to top U.N. court

By Molly Quell - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 7, 2017, file photo, smoke rises from a burned house in Gawdu Zara village, northern Rakhine state, where the vast majority of the country's 1.1 million Rohingya lived, Myanmar. (AP Photo, File)

Hearings on whether Myanmar committed genocide against the Rohingya opens at top U.N. court

By Molly Quell - Associated Press

FILE -A Palestinian flag flies outside the International Court of Justice, rear, which opened hearings into a United Nations request for an advisory opinion on Israel's obligations to allow humanitarian assistance in Gaza and the West Bank, in The Hague, Netherlands, April 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Top U.N. court says Israel must allow U.N. relief agency to supply aid to Gaza

By Molly Quell - Associated Press

An activist holds a fan that reads "make polluters pay" as they demonstrate outside the International Court of Justice ahead of an advisory opinion on what legal obligations nations have to address climate change and which consequences they may face if they don't, on Wednesday, July 23, 2025, in The Hague, Netherlands. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

U.N.’s top court says failing to protect planet from climate change could violate international law

By Molly Quell and Mike Corder - Associated Press

FILE - In this photo released by the Thai Royal Thai Army, Cambodian Chief of Army Mao Sophan, left, meets with Thailand Chief of Army Gen. Pana Claewplodtook, right, at a border checkpoint in Surin province, Thailand, May 29, 2025. (Thai Royal Thai Army via AP, file)

Cambodia says it will take border dispute with Thailand to top U.N. court

By Sopheng Cheang - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo taken on Friday, July 9, 2021, members of the Lithuania State Border Guard Service patrol on the border with Belarus, near the village of Purvenai, Lithuania. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis, File)

Lithuania takes Belarus to top U.N. court over alleged smuggling of migrants

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FILE - A lone demonstrator waves the Palestinian flag outside the Peace Palace, rear, housing the International Court of Justice, or World Court, in The Hague, Netherlands, on May 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

What is the International Court of Justice and why is it weighing in on humanitarian aid in Gaza?

By Molly Quell - Associated Press

A man walks by a house hit in recent fighting in Khartoum, Sudan, an area torn by fighting between the military and the notorious paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, on April 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali, File)

Sudan files case to U.N. court alleging UAE is breaching genocide convention by funding rebels

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

FILE - Lebanese Ambassador to the United Nations Nawaf Salam speaks to reporters after Security Council consultations on the situation in Libya, March 14, 2011 at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo, File)

Prominent diplomat and jurist who heads top U.N. court named Lebanon’s new prime minister

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Judges are seated as the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, opens hearings into what countries worldwide are legally required to do to combat climate change and help vulnerable nations fight its devastating impact, Monday, Dec. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Landmark climate change case opens at the top U.N. court as island nations fear rising seas

By Molly Quell - Associated Press

FILE - Seats of the judges at the International Court of Justice, or World Court, in The Hague, Netherlands, Thursday, May 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Top U.N. court sets a December date for the start of hearings in a landmark climate change case

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

FILE - A view of the Peace Palace, which houses the International Court of Justice, or World Court, in The Hague, Netherlands, on Jan. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Patrick Post, File)

Top U.N. court says Israel’s presence in occupied Palestinian territories is illegal and must end

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

Tulips flower outside the Peace Palace housing the World Court, or International Court of Justice, in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, May 1, 2024. Mexico is taking Ecuador to the United Nations' top court on Tuesday accusing the nation of violating international law by storming into the Mexican embassy in Quito on April 5 and arresting former Ecuador Vice President Jorge Glas, who had been holed up there seeking asylum in Mexico. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Ecuador defends raid on the Mexican Embassy and tells top U.N. court it acted to take in a criminal

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

A pro-Palestinian activist works on a protest poster near the International Court of Justice, or World Court, in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, April 8, 2024, prior to the start of a two days hearing in a case brought by Nicaragua accusing Germany of breaching the genocide convention by providing arms and support to Israel. (AP Photo/Patrick Post)

Germany rejects allegations that it’s facilitating acts of genocide in Gaza at U.N. court

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

Riyad Al-Maliki, minister of Foreign Affairs of the Palestinian National Authority, center, and Riyad Mansour, representative of the Palestinian National Authority at the U.N., right, take their seats at the United Nations' highest court which opened historic hearings in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, Feb. 19, 2024. Six days of hearings opened Monday at the top United Nations court into the legality of Israel’s 57-year occupation of lands sought for a Palestinian state. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Palestinian diplomat accuses Israel of apartheid, asks U.N. court to declare its occupation illegal

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

A view of the Peace Palace, which houses the International Court of Justice, or World Court, in The Hague, Netherlands, on Jan. 26, 2024. The United Nations' highest court opens historic hearings Monday, Feb. 19, 2024, into the legality of Israel's 57-year occupation of the West Bank and east Jerusalem, plunging the 15 international judges back into the heart of the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (AP Photo/Patrick Post, File)

Top U.N. court to hold hearings on legality of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian-claimed lands

By Mike Corder and Julia Frankel - Associated Press

Presiding judge Joan Donoghue, center, reads the International Court of Justice's, the United Nations top court, ruling in The Hague, Netherlands, Friday, Feb. 2, 2024, on whether it has jurisdiction to hear a case filed by Ukraine in the days after Russia's invasion accusing Moscow of breaching the genocide convention. In the highly-charged case, Kyiv claims that Russia breached the landmark 1948 convention by using trumped-up claims of genocide in the eastern regions of Luhansk and Donetsk as a pretext for attacking Ukraine nearly two years ago. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

U.N.’s top court says it has jurisdiction in part of Ukraine’s genocide case against Russia

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

Palestinians look at their neighbour's damaged house following an Israeli strike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Airstrike kills 3 Palestinians in southern Gaza as Israel presses on with its war against Hamas

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A view of the Peace Palace, which houses the International Court of Justice, or World Court, in The Hague, Netherlands, Friday, Jan. 26, 2024. Israel is set to hear whether the United Nations' top court will order it to end its military offensive in Gaza during a case filed by South Africa accusing Israel of genocide. (AP Photo/Patrick Post)

6 things the United Nations is ordering Israel to do about its operation in Gaza

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Antisemitism against Israel in The Hague illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

South Africa and other antisemitic genocidaires accuse Israel of genocide

By Clifford D. May