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http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/ed460670c22219c8 https://verfassungsblog.de/nicaragua-comes-up-empty/ Nicaragua Comes Up Empty - Provisional Measures in Nicaragua v Germany at the ICJ Becker, Michael A eng 2024-05-01 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Arms Exports Gaza Genocide International Court of Justice Internationaler Gerichtshof | Den Haag Israel-Gaza War Gaza Internationaler Gerichtshof | Den Haag Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 On 30 April 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) rejected a request by Nicaragua for the indication of provisional measures in connection with claims relating to Germany’s support for Israel in the ongoing Gaza conflict. In a terse, sparsely-reasoned decision, the Court decided 15-1 that the circumstances were ‘not such as to require the exercise of its power under Article 41 of the Statute to indicate provisional measures’. While this outcome was not necessarily surprising to those who had followed the proceedings, the Court’s approach—in which it declined to address the usual requirements for the indication of provisional measures—was unusual.