Israel-Gaza: 'We are at war', says Benjamin Netanyahu

It's equally likely that the numbers of Israeli soldiers getting killed have forced this move.

Soldiers coming home in bodybags are very unpopular anywhere, but more to the point in Israel they demonstrate to their own people that Israel is not as powerful as they like to pretend.

In the meantime they continue with their genocidal activities from the air which the Palestinians have no defence against.

That said, the explosion in Israel's largest oil refinery might have a larger effect on the war than resolutions in the UN or (at least in the short term) than the case before the ICJ.

No the killing of the remaining hostages would give Israel the right to continue to pursue the HAMAS and Islamic Jihadist terrorists until they captured or killed them

The release of the hostages without HAMAS or other Islamic terrorist surrendering would put immense pressure on Israel to end its campaign. But that is not in the terrorists agenda

There doesn't seem to be much in the news about the ICJ genocide case, everyone is keeping shtum about it. I hope they soon issue an interim decision condemning Israel and ordering them to immediately desist. While I appreciate that this will not stop Nethanyahoo in the short term, it would be a first step in bringing the Israeli war criminals and their facilitators in the US, UK and Germany (along with others) to book.

It would also very likely affect the oil companies who are supplying Israel's military and stop them from any further deliveries to Israel until the genocide stops. Other companies - such as Microsoft who supply chips for use in equipment by the Israeli army - too.

Palestine - i.e. the entity run by Mahmud Abbas - had nothing to do with October 7th; and even if it had, I don't think it's fully recognised as a state so could not be held responsible.

Hamas, who run Gaza, is not recognised by anyone as a state. It's a political organisation, and in fact may not have had anything to do with Oct 7th either. Try Al Qassam Brigades maybe, which is a separate organisation to Hamas. And AQ isn't a state actor either, so could not be brought before the ICJ.

The issue therein is how can Israel protect it self from a large terrorist grouping embedded within a hostile population. It not the correct to compare HAMAS to AQ. HAMAS effectively rules Gaza since 2005.

It uses the population of GAZA to protect it self with the support of a majority of that population who main cry is ''Palestine will be free from the river to the sea'' which effectively a call for the annilation or removal of the existing population if Israel which the Palestinians and the Arab population of surrounding countries have been attempting for the last 60+ years

That is like blaming the rape victim for what they were wearing or the person mugged for being in the wrong street.

When something happen you will always find the mistakes you made that dose not absolve someone else for there actions

Not a great comparison, as the "rape victim" in this case is the Palestinian people who have been "raped" by the zionists since the 1940s if not earlier.

I name two comparisons of victim blaming and thatbis what it is.

You want to read your history. Tge Arabs attack or planned to attack every time and got the sh!t kicked out of them. Stupidity is keeping doing tge sane thing and expecting a different result.

Small scale terror attack approximately 1200 Israelis killed and another 250 taken hostage.

There was no need ofva solution if HAMAS had not attacked and itbis victim blaming