{"id":30091,"date":"2025-03-04T21:03:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T17:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/japanese-judge-yuji-iwasawa-elected-icj-president-set-to-oversee-israeli-genocide-case\/"},"modified":"2025-03-04T21:03:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T17:33:43","slug":"japanese-judge-yuji-iwasawa-elected-icj-president-set-to-oversee-israeli-genocide-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/japanese-judge-yuji-iwasawa-elected-icj-president-set-to-oversee-israeli-genocide-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese judge Yuji Iwasawa elected ICJ president, set to oversee Israeli genocide case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/5408040.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p class=\"summary\">The United Nations&#8217; top court has elected a Japanese judge as its new president to replace Nawaf Salam who resigned from the post in January to become the Lebanese prime minister.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">In a statement released on Monday, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) said Judge Yuji Iwasawa will head the Hague-based tribunal until February 5, 2027 when Salam\u2019s term was due to expire, Press TV reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Iwasawa has been a member of the ICJ since June 2018. Before joining the 15-judge court, he was professor of international law at the University of Tokyo and chair of the United Nations Human Rights Committee.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">The 70-year-old judge is the second Japanese to assume the ICJ&#8217;s presidency after Hisashi Owada, who served as the tribunal&#8217;s chief from 2009 to 2012.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Salam, who began his role as the ICJ head in February 2024, officially stepped down after being appointed as the Lebanese prime minister by President Joseph Aoun.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Pro-Israel Judge Julia Sebutinde, from Uganda, had taken over the temporary presidency of the court.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">The ICJ is currently dealing with several high-profile cases, including the genocide case against Israel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">South Africa lodged the complaint with the court in December of 2023, saying the occupying regime&#8217;s actions in the Gaza Strip are \u201cgenocidal in character because they are intended to bring about the destruction of a substantial part of the Palestinian national, racial and ethnical group.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Since then, several countries, including Belize, Cuba, Nicaragua, Colombia, Libya, Mexico, Palestine, Spain, Turkey, Bolivia, the Maldives, Chile, and Ireland have joined the case.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">In January 2024, the ICJ handed down a ruling, ordering Israel to take all measures within its power to prevent genocide in Gaza, but stopped short of calling for an immediate ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Israel waged its brutal Gaza onslaught on October 7, 2023, but it failed to achieve its declared objectives despite killing at least 48,397 Palestinians, mostly women and children.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">The occupying regime accepted longstanding negotiation terms by the Hamas resistance group under a Gaza truce, which began on January 19.<br \/> \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/news\/510526\/Japanese-judge-Yuji-Iwasawa-elected-ICJ-president-set-to-oversee\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations&#8217; top court has elected a Japanese judge as its new president to replace Nawaf Salam who resigned from the post in January to become the Lebanese prime minister. In a statement released on Monday, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) said Judge Yuji Iwasawa will head the Hague-based tribunal until February 5, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[28,2830,8843,8842],"class_list":["post-30091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-international","tag-international-court-of-justice-the-icj","tag-israeli-genocide-case","tag-japanese"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}