The foreign ministers of Spain, Norway and Ireland – the three countries that will formally recognise Palestine as a state on Tuesday – are speaking at the Spanish embassy in Brussels.

Norway’s Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide says:

“I think all three of us have for months have been saying that we’re worried that the Israeli style of warfare in Gaza has been in breach of international humanitarian law. Now we know”.

“We’ve had a compulsory order from the International Court of Justice ordering Israel to stop its attack in Rafah”.

“It is compulsory. It’s binding, which means that continuing… in Rafah is in material breach of the decision of the highest court of the world”.