On Friday, the ICJ ordered Israel to prevent any acts of genocide against the Palestinians and do more to help suffering civilians. However, it stopped short of ordering a ceasefire as requested by South Africa, which brought the case to the UN court.
Displaced Gazans living in a makeshift shelter in Khan Younis said they were hoping the court’s decision would bring about a ceasefire.
The ruling, however, denied Palestinian hopes of a binding order to halt Israel's war in Gaza and it also represented a legal setback for Israel, which had hoped to throw out a case brought under the genocide convention established in the ashes of the Holocaust.
More than 26,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israeli offensive on Gaza.
