Nicaragua has filed a case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against Germany over financial and military aid to Israel amid its war on Gaza.

The ICJ announced on Friday that Nicaragua has filed an “application instituting proceedings” and has asked the court to issue emergency measures over Germany’s alleged violations of its obligations under the Genocide Convention and the 1949 Geneva Conventions on the laws of war in relation to the occupied Palestinian territories, and “particularly the Gaza Strip”, Al Jazeera reported. 

“Germany is facilitating the commission of genocide and, in any case has failed in its obligations to do everything possible to prevent the commission of genocide,” Nicaragua’s submission to the court states, according to the ICJ.