The United Nations’ top court will rule on charges by Nicaragua that Germany is breaching the 1948 Genocide Convention by supplying arms to Israel for the Gaza onslaught, AFP reports.

Nicaragua has hauled Germany before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to demand that judges impose emergency measures to stop Berlin from providing Israel with weapons and other assistance.

More than 34,000 people have been killed in the Palestinian territory since the conflict broke out in October following a cross-border attack by Hamas that left around 1,170 Israelis dead.

The ICJ in The Hague is scheduled to issue an order at 3pm (1pm GMT). Nicaragua targeted Germany rather than Israel’s main ally, the United States, because Washington did not recognise the ICJ’s jurisdiction in the case, Managua’s lawyers have said.

They say Israel is in breach of the 1948 Genocide Convention.