Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki has said Palestine welcomes the provisional measures ordered by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Reuters reports.

“The ICJ judges assessed the facts and the law, they ruled in favor of humanity and international law,” he said in a televised briefing.

Al-Maliki added that Palestine calls on all states to ensure the measures ordered by the court are implemented “including by Israel, the occupying power”.