Al Jazeera has clarified that the ICJ’s January 2024 ruling recognised Palestinians’ plausible right to protection under the Genocide Convention, not that Israel was plausibly violating it.

Previously, it stated that the court had found Israel’s conduct “plausibly” in breach of the Convention.

That distinction matters, and misframing it risks stirring needless alarm by presenting a procedural ruling as a substantive finding of guilt, misleading audiences about the ICJ’s authority and the stage of South Africa’s case.