The United Nations criticized Israel for its ban on aid in hearings at the International Court of Justice. Israel did not send a legal delegation and rejected the proceedings as biased.

A Palestinian diplomat has told the United Nations’ top court that Israel is killing and displacing civilians and targeting aid workers in Gaza in a case that Israel criticized as part of its “systematic persecution and delegitimization.

He said in his opening remarks that the lack of aid was “supported by the World Court” by default, and the lack of food “targets life itself... [including] by starvation.”This encompasses Israel's banning of UNRWA,