World reacts to UN Court ICJ ruling against Israel

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.