Top judge corrects media

International court did not decide that claim of genocide in Gaza was plausible

A former president of the International Court of Justice has taken the unusual step of correcting widespread misreporting of her court’s ruling on Gaza earlier this year.

Joan Donoghue, whose term of office expired a few days after the court delivered its findings 26 January, gave an interview to the BBC’s HARDtalk programme which was broadcast yesterday.