UN's top court orders halt to Israeli military campaign

The International Court of Justice has ruled Israel must halt its military offensive immediately, however, it carries little weight. ABC News' Britt Clennett has the latest from Tel Aviv.
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[@smn2004]

The current US government is a full embarrassment… The level of double standards is just mind-blowing.

[@hms19018]

Okay hamas supporter. Babies and children kidnapped from their homes are still in the tunnel.

[@acqueenarkpyanne721]

Really in what what..must be in ir dream. UN is corrupt n one-sided..there are so many other countries in worse situation than Gaza

[@smn2004]

@@hms19018 I support humanity, not Hamas!!! All human lives are equally valuable, whether Israeli or non-Israeli… If what Hamas did was horrible, what Israel is currently doing is not that different. They could have got the hostages back a long time ago through a ceasefire… And there is NO child hostages left in Gaza, that’s just a fact.

[@gurumage9555]

​@@smn2004 Strawmanning valid humanitarian concerns as supporting hamas is the best reply they can give.

[@txbulldogboxing1462]

​@@hms19018Hind Rajab,her family,and those 2 paramedics are not Hamas.Try another lie.

[@DardaniaLion]

It is just wrong and a shame to humanity and this civilisation to still have hate and wars against each other. I am understanding that no matter how many thousands of years go are into the future, we will still be animals.

[@christopherlane5238]

It must be so comforting to know 100% for sure what will happen in thousands of years.

[@davidlay8932]

Why not order the same to Russia then?

[@txbulldogboxing1462]

Putin Ignored them. Question now is,does Bibi act like Putin or respect the court of the UN?

[@manofthepeople2165]

@@txbulldogboxing1462 we all know the answer is act worse than Putin and nnurdder innocent chill rden.

[@reaperdragon1]

They already did but you all seem to be very selective in what you pay attention to. 🤦‍♂️

[@thabangaugustinehlalele]

Simple Israeli has been on it for 75 years. Enough now

[@ComradeFromRhody401]

Netanyahu is 1000 times worse than Putin

[@JkM-ji5xt]

Hoping that ABC gives the complete news - not their opinions. Sigh, silly me.

[@afifaamin6944]

When do Palestinians get to defend themselves?

[@shanewaitley9799]

Never they always start things and cry when Israel’s strikes back

[@ComradeFromRhody401]

@@shanewaitley9799 Israel is a professional victim

[@ChrisAlbertH47]

When? Anytime they want. It's their right to defend themselves against their oppressors. We can disagree with the methods, but not the right.

[@soheljamader8469]

Only Israel has rights to defend itself. Not Palestinians rights to defend itself. Wow

[@user-ik2bb2vz5x]

Yea Rpe and kidnappng babies is consider self defence now, great logic

[@TR_Emeritus]

The US will tell Netanyahu to ignore the ICJ and carry on with what they are doing, which US continues to supply Israel with what Netanyahu needs. Nothing will change.

[@nathaliet.9222]

Indeed...listening to those people's argument that makes no sense.....it is so infuriating .....

[@afifaamin6944]

There should be total ceasefire. Can’t imagine what the Palestinians are going through. 😢

[@christinemarshall1366]

There will be no ceasefire Israel is fighting an existential fight against terrorists who have vowed to continue committing October 7th massacres again and again. Governments are out of step with their people who are more concerned about Islamic expansionism.

[@michaelparsons6833]

I'm sure Bibi will jump right on this.LOL

[@jerseattle0722]

A baby killing monster? No he doesn’t have a conscious

[@drumpfisidiot5021]

Right after Sinwar this.LOL

[@ChrisAlbertH47]

Bibitch never cared about the hostages. I doubt at this point he cares about Izrael. It's his own hide he's trying to save.

[@Verastasia]

Still waiting for them to condemn Hamas 🙄

[@MrMachZero]

resistance is legal 😂

[@Dynamatrix2000]

​@MrMachZero Israel is a state.

[@RicePho]

@@Dynamatrix2000 Isrealie should consider themselves lucky the U.N even CREATED Israel.

[@anniehuckerby9281]

There will Always be division between Israel and Gaza until Israelis take all the land Its all tragic ❤

[@ernestoaboy7542]

They asked Israel to stop but not hamas ..how was that fair eh ??

[@RazorMouth]

Is hamas ki!!ing tens of thousands and maiming over a hundred thousand innocent civilians? Get a grip

[@ChalrieD]

How dare the slaves revolt!!

[@RazorMouth]

@@ChalrieD Prisoners, over 2 million of them and half of them children.

[@gilbertaragon6582]

What a shame Hamas’s strategy is to use hospitals and schools for base. Great way to turn the blame on others.

[@gmac8586]

They did tell Hamas to stop.

[@newworldupdates6247]

Did the rulling to include immediate release of hostages

[@kimshienbaum3071]

Humanitarian crisis????Take a look at UKRAINE....focus on THOSE STARVING CIVILIANS

[@christinemarshall1366]

The UN isn't concerned about Christians neither those in Ukraine nor those minority Christians in Muslim countries and elsewhere.

[@Paul-McB]

Gaza should have never invited Hamas into their city and build an underground tunnel city below the civilian population. 😢

[@Paul-McB]

@user-bo5bd2vf9t Blame the Gaza leaders, community, and parents for allowing such a deplorable act of siding with Hamas.

[@jeanmarclentini8888]

Why does the international court not ask Palestine hamas to release the Jewish hostages ?

[@RazorMouth]

😂😂😂😂😂😂 You think thay would stop these psychos?

[@ChalrieD]

They did.

[@gmac8586]

They did.

[@zapotc]

They didn't say please :l

[@soheljamader8469]

Why does the international court not ask terrorists Israel to release Palestinian people's. (I mean Palestinian captive)

[@stmark4181]

I KNOW what’s going on in Gaza. IF Israel is really committing “genocide” and EVERYONE knows and sees it - THEN WHY won’t Egypt open their borders to help these “innocent civilians”? I’ve seen Egyptian soldiers walking around on the other side of the gate and walking away from the Palestinians. Are you saying that the Egyptians WOULD RATHER see the Gazans die than help them? 😂😂😂 So EGYPT is helping Israel commit “genocide” ? 😂😂😂

[@user-ik2bb2vz5x]

The answer is there is no genocide....

[@jacintoalmodovar4339]

Egypt is collaborating with those islamist terrorist ! 😡🤬🤮

[@reaperdragon1]

You are arguing for ethnic cleansing. That is just as bad. But let's distract with nonsense

[@user-ik2bb2vz5x]

@@reaperdragon1 Kind of like how almost every single Jw was ethnically cleansed from Islamic countries right?

[@smn2004]

These guests seem to live in a parallel world! They’re so detached from what’s going on!!

[@ZOIZENWRITER]

WAR IS DUMB

[@josephsefeti903]

UN is dumb..ask hamas to release the hostages first ask Russia to get out of Ukraine territory

[@spacelinx]

The ICC clearly didn’t watch the video released the other day of a Palestinian father and son very callously and indifferently describe how they assaulted women together on Oct 7. Israel has every right to go and level Rafah in search of the remaining captives and Hamas terrorists there, in need of being brought to Justice.

[@txbulldogboxing1462]

Nobody gets a pass for murder.Justice for Hind Rajab,her family,and those 2 paramedics is not antisemetic

[@rosenjambi3374]

What will happen if they are given a state of their own, it's a shame that such a thing happened with father and son, even animals don't do that

[@benlinda199]

Why didn't the court order the release of all hostages immediately?????

[@ChrisAlbertH47]

In literally every single public statement by the UN including the courts, there have been appeals for the release of hostages. But it's obviously different given that Kkhammass is not a state or a member of the UN. But Izrael is. And Izrael claims to be a civilized democracy so the current rulings by both the ICJ and the ICC simply served to remind them, and the rest of the world, how far Izrael has fallen short.

[@norriesmith1052]

Stand strong Israel. No higher court than the Court where our Lord Jesus Christ sits. He will never forsake Israel x

[@kevintaylor8122]

It carries no weight. It's downright silly of them to go and "order" something when they have no authority whatsoever to do so. Where were they while Hamas was committing atrocities while the Palestinians stood on the streets and cheered?

[@ghostmae2405]

Sometimes when Your babies have been I won’t even say the words, it seems all the hope left is oppression.

[@simenlvseth1788]

Israel detect 10000 rockets everyday but not farmers in parachute? How they say accident when killing or doing obvious mistakes in media, just like they said USS liberty was mistake? How they gonna explain against every nation (146 as of now) to stop with their inhuman crimeS?

[@simenlvseth1788]

Israel detect 10000 rockets everyday but not farmers in parachute? How they say accident when killing or doing obvious mistakes in media, just like they said USS liberty was mistake? How they gonna explain against every nation (146 as of now) to stop with their inhuman crimeS?

[@simenlvseth1788]

Israel detect 10000 rockets everyday but not farmers in parachute? How they say accident when killing or doing obvious mistakes in media, just like they said USS liberty was mistake? How they gonna explain against every nation (146 as of now) to stop with their inhuman crimeS?

[@patriciavincent3539]

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing" - Edmund Burke

[@ChrisAlbertH47]

And they ignored it, because that's exactly who they are.

[@SafdarAli-ow4ij]

This war was imposed on Israel by the of Hamas on October 7. Now it is not the unilateral military campaign but the war on both sides as both the parties are leaving no stone unturned in order to eliminate one another.

[@ThomasLindellart]

No Jew lived in Gaza since 2005. But Hamas started this genocide war against Israel k. 1200 people and taking 250 hostages.

[@txbulldogboxing1462]

Compare body counts.Now realize one side is a nuclear power the other side is allowed to grow certain typed of mushrooms.

[@ThomasLindellart]

@@txbulldogboxing1462 Gaza fired 20000 rockets on Israel. You don't know nothing about this war. So stop lying.

[@YonieZukowsky51]

Are you sure that it wasn't the gentle Yayah Sinwar who ordered a halt to Israel's military campaign?

[@cometanet8389]

they hope Netanyahu will listen...pathetic people. Israel is fighting a just war.

[@RazorMouth]

😂😂😂😂😂😂 2 international courts after Israel and you're still here talking sh1t. Europe will support both courts, is the US going to fall out with all of Europe over this now? Wake the F up.

[@JeromuJogoNarimole-wg9fx]

UN and ICC is not good enough for international people

[@spankyssurprise1361]

Lol...Israel doesn't care...nor should they.

[@rosenjambi3374]

Useless order, they should know better, Israel is not a member they could try begging them first

[@STALCHESSAll2SuperGMAnalysis]

🏆 1,400 VS 35,000+ !!! 👏👏👏 The Majority Children and Women + Hospital... Now "Refugee Camp" ? 🎉 BRAVO! 👏👏👏 ISRAEL and ALLY only CREATE BIGGER ANGGER to The Peace and Humanitarian All Over The World!!! ☮️ 🕊 PLEASE PEACE DUD!!! 🕊 #reformwierdveto #letslearntobewise PRO UN for keeping Humanitarian and PEACE ✌❤💔

[@bartdimayuga6759]

It is a moral obligation for complaining country South Africa to enforce this verdict of ICJ by invading Israel if she does not comply with the ruling after all SA has the justification to do it.

[@rosenjambi3374]

Just watched a documentary on SA where civilians are taking on the jobs of the police by guarding their neighborhood, shame

[@tomhenry897]

Nothing about the hostages

[@rigocardiel7719]

Should Israel handle the war different yes I agree should Israel listen to America on how to handle the war absolutely not we spent 20 years in Afghanistan just to give it back with billions of dollars worth of military equipment

[@RicePho]

Israel never existed for over 1000 years before U.N made it. Logical of Isrealies keep on saying "ISRAEL IS THEIR LAND", that logic is pretty much saying the Mongal empire land should now all belong to the Mongalia.

[@naaodey7896]

Ever read a bible?

[@RicePho]

@@naaodey7896 Don't use a stupid book that no one consider history as justification. Hey, maybe you can show me how Moses "split a sea" or my favorite part how Noah fit "ALL ANIMALS" on a boat!

[@woo9238]

The world has done so much to protect the Jews. They are obligated to listen.

[@reaperdragon1]

Self defence does not give you the right to commit atrocities of their own. These contributors are a hypocritical joke.

[@benjaminellert7780]

No atrocities by Israel were done.Hamas did atrocities.

[@reaperdragon1]

@@benjaminellert7780if you really think this. then you aren't paying attention at all.

[@benjaminellert7780]

@@reaperdragon1 I know that not think so.

[@reaperdragon1]

So starving 2M, killing 32k women and chill is not an atrocity? What did they teach your generation? because it obviously wasn't to think rationally for yourselves.

[@FredL-t1e]

Me and my brother really hate each other but we tolerate each other humm

[@justindatema9004]

So are they also going to tell hamas to stop their genocidal tendencies as well

[@aaronolivas6970]

War.... war never changes

[@lemontadams3029]

Netanyahu's Miami-Based Adult Son Shares Video of Purported Israeli Troop Calling for Mutiny Against Gallant Yair Netanyahu’s stay in Miami costs Israel about $680,000 a year for security and an allowance

[@MatthewJames-c5q]

War criminal

[@markenglish9841]

time to disband this mickey mouse court

[@wimbalinge7312]

These cowerts dont talk about 7oct and hostages afrait off hamas.

[@edwinojeda6424]

Order something that can't enforce. A fashion judge has more power that the clowns of the icj.

[@afifaamin6944]

We will remember this Palestinian holocaust.

[@ThomasBranson-yv5ub]

Israel, tell the u. n to take a long hike.

[@delwarkhan7128]

Comedian Dave Chappelle condemned Israel’s war on Gaza as GENOCIDE

[@Dynamatrix2000]

Who cares.

[@user-ik2bb2vz5x]

Wow I guess Israel has no choice now that Dave Chappelle gave his opinion

[@user-pf8qe9sm9g]

Mind blowing the UN

[@loanpham2681]

Bring the children home 🏠🏠🏠🏠🏠

[@TruthSeekerAll]

Its non binding anyways. 😂😂😂😂😂

[@SimonGonzales-t8c]

Remove Israel prime Minister

[@buscandolaverdad4117]

Finally.

[@stephanielangel8851]

See, you have no real power... ....ICC....... don't mess with God's people.............the apple of God's eye 👁 🙏.

[@loanpham2681]

🇮🇱🇮🇱♥️🇮🇱🇮🇱🙏🏻🙏🏿💪🏼💪🏼🦾🦾

[@kimshienbaum3071]

BDS THE UN.

[@Majabe21]

Free America from AIPAC Lobby

[@drumpfisidiot5021]

But not release their hostages right?....Cry harder

[@JustinHillman-x8c]

When president trump is reelected un nato eu and icc/icj will cry