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Palestinians mourn their relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, outside a morgue in Rafah, southern Gaza, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Where does the rest of the world stand on the allegations that Israel is committing genocide?

By Gerald Imray - Associated Press

South Africa's Minister of Justice and Correctional Services Ronald Lamola, center, and Palestinian assistant Minister of Multilateral Affairs Ammar Hijazi, right, address the media outside the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024. The United Nations' top court opens hearings Thursday into South Africa's allegation that Israel's war with Hamas amounts to genocide against Palestinians, a claim that Israel strongly denies. (AP Photo/Patrick Post)

Live updates | Israel rejects genocide case as Mideast tensions rise after US-led strikes in Yemen

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Israeli soldiers store ammunition in a staging area at the Israeli-Gaza border in southern Israel, Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024. The army said Monday that several thousand troops would be taken out of Gaza in the coming weeks. Some will head to bases for further training or rest, while many older reservists will go home. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Israel says it will defend itself against genocide accusations at world court filed by South Africa

By Melanie Lidman and Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy - Associated Press

FILE - View of the Peace Palace which houses World Court in The Hague, Netherlands, on Sept. 19, 2023. South Africa has launched a case at the United Nations’ top court accusing Israel of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and asking the court to order Israel to halt its attacks. South Africa’s submission filed Friday, Dec. 29, 2023, at the International Court of Justice alleges that “acts and omissions by Israel ... are genocidal in character”.. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

South Africa launches case at United Nations’ top court accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

Homes stand in the village of Surama in the Rupununi area of the Essequibo, a territory in dispute with Venezuela, Saturday, Nov. 18, 2023. Venezuela has long claimed Guyana’s Essequibo region — a territory larger than Greece and rich in oil and minerals. (AP Photo/Juan Pablo Arraez)

Venezuela’s planned vote over territory dispute leaves Guyana residents on edge

By Juan Arraez and Regina Garcia Cano - Associated Press

Demonstrators hold pictures of people they say disappeared in Syria outside the World Court, where preliminary hearings opened in a case in which the Netherlands and Canada are suing Syria at the International Court of Justice, or World Court, the United Nations' highest judicial organ, in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023, accusing Damascus of massive human rights violations against its own people. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Canada and the Netherlands take Syria to top U.N. court, accuse Damascus of widespread torture

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

View of the Peace Palace which houses World Court where Ukraine's legal battle against Russia over allegations of genocide used by Moscow to justify its 2022 invasion, resumed in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, Sept. 18, 2023. Russia seeks to have a groundbreaking case tossed out at the International Court of Justice, also known as the Word Court, in a case which will see Ukraine supported by a record 32 other nations in a major show of support for the embattled nation. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Russia urges U.N.’s top court to toss out Ukrainian case that seeks to halt Moscow’s invasion

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

The U.N. flag flies outside the World Court in The Hague, Netherlands, Thursday, July 13, 2023, where the United Nations' highest court deliveres its judgment in a long-running maritime border dispute between Nicaragua and Colombia. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Top U.N. court rejects Nicaragua’s case in a long-running maritime dispute with Colombia

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

This file photo shows an exterior view of the Peace Palace, which houses the International Court of Justice, or World Court, in The Hague, Netherlands on Feb. 18, 2019. Hearings open Tuesday, June 6, 2023, at the United Nations’ highest court in a case brought by Ukraine against Russia linked to Moscow’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and arming of rebels in eastern Ukraine in the years before Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong) **FILE**

Ukraine brands Russia ‘terrorist state’ to open hearings in case against Russia at top U.N. court

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

Iran's agent Tavakol Habibzadeh, center, and delegation members wait for judges to enter the International Court of Justice, the United Nations' top court, which issued its judgment in a dispute between Iran and the United States over frozen Iranian state bank accounts worth some $2 billion, in The Hague, Netherlands, Thursday, March 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Top U.N. court rejects Iranian bid to free assets frozen by U.S.

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

Lee Yong-soo, a South Korean sexual slavery survivor who has been demanding since the early 1990s that the Japanese government fully accept culpability and offer an unequivocal apology, speaks during an interview in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man) ** FILE **

South Korean slavery victim seeks U.N. justice as time runs out

By Kim Tong-hyung - Associated Press

A factory and a store burn after having been bombarded in Irpin, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, March 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Russia snubs U.N. court hearings in case brought by Ukraine

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

Rohingya refugees gather near a fence during a government-organized media tour, to a no-man's land between Myanmar and Bangladesh, near Taungpyolatyar village, Maung Daw, northern Rakhine State, Myanmar, June 29, 2018. An international case accusing Myanmar of genocide against the Rohingya ethnic minority returns to the United Nations' highest court Monday, Feb. 21, 2022, amid questions over whether the country's military rulers should even be allowed to represent the Southeast Asian nation. (AP Photo/Min Kyi Thein, File)

Myanmar seeks to have Rohingya case thrown out of U.N. court

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

Lee Yong-soo, a South Korean woman who was sexually enslaved by Japan's World War II military, weeps during a press conference at the Press Center in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021. Lee called for the leaders of both countries to settle an impasse over the issue by seeking judgment from the International Court of Justice. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

S. Korean sexual slavery survivor wants UN court judgment

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

Iran’s president claims big victory in bid to end sanctions

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FILE- In this Monday Aug. 27, 2018, file photo, people walk toward the International Court of Justice in the Hague, the Netherlands. The United Nations highest court is ruling on U.S. objections to its jurisdiction in in a case brought by Iran against Washington in a bid to end sanctions re-imposed by the Trump administration in 2018 after pulling out of an international deal aimed at curtailing Tehran's nuclear program. (AP Photo/Mike Corder, File)

UN court says it can hear case brought by Iran against US

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

FILE- In this Monday, Feb. 18, 2019, file photo the Peace Palace, which houses the International Court of Justice, or World Court, is seen in The Hague, Netherlands. The United Nations' highest court ruled Friday Dec. 18, 2020, that it will intervene to settle a decades-old border dispute between Latin American neighbors Guyana and Venezuela. The decision by the International Court of Justice means it will now move to judge the merits of the case, which will likely take months or years. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

World court to intervene in Guyana-Venezuela border dispute

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 7, 2017, file photo, houses are on fire in Gawdu Zara village, northern Rakhine state, Myanmar. Two soldiers who defected from Myanmar’s army and confessed on video to taking part in massacres, rape, and other crimes against the Muslim Rohingya minority are believed to be in the custody of the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands and should be prosecuted to obtain their evidence, a human rights organization said Tuesday. (AP Photo, File)

Myanmar army deserters confirm atrocities against Rohingya

By GRANT PECK - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2020, file photo, Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi, right, receives a final report from Philippine diplomat Rosario Manalo, a member of the Independent Commission of Enquiry for Rakhine State, at the Presidential Palace in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. When Suu Kyi walked into the International Court of Justice in December, 2019, she gambled the remaining shreds of her hard-won international reputation on a rebuttal of accusations that her country's military committed genocide against minority Rohingya Muslims. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo, File)

Genocide charge dents halo of Myanmar’s Suu Kyi

By GRANT PECK - Associated Press

In this Dec. 11, 2019, file photo, Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi addresses judges of the International Court of Justice for the second day of three days of hearings in The Hague, Netherlands. The United Nations' highest court is set to rule Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020, on whether to order Myanmar to halt what has been described as a genocidal campaign against the country's Rohingya Muslim minority. The International Court of Justice decision comes in a case brought by the African nation of Gambia on behalf of an organization of Muslim nations that accuses Myanmar of genocide in its crackdown on the Rohingya. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Rohingya hail U.N. ruling ordering Myanmar to prevent genocide

By Mike Corder - Associated Press