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Israel asks ICJ not to order new measures over looming famine in Gaza

Displaced Palestinians collect food donated by a charity on the fourth day of Ramadan in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip [Haitham Imad/EPA]

Israel has asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) not to issue emergency orders for it to step up humanitarian aid to Gaza to address a looming famine, dismissing South Africa’s request to do so as “morally repugnant”.

In a legal filing to the top United Nations court, made public on Monday, Israel said it “has real concern for the humanitarian situation and innocent lives, as demonstrated by the actions it has and is taking” in Gaza.

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