Both Israel and South Africa hailed the United Nations’s top court’s preliminary ruling in the case of whether the former is carrying out genocide in the Gaza Strip.

The International Court of Justice in The Hague ordered Israel to “take all measures” to prevent genocide in Gaza, but it did not order Israel to stop its war in Gaza. South African leaders, Palestinians, and their allies were hoping the ICJ would order a halt to war, while Israel was looking for the court to dismiss the case outright, neither of which it did, meaning neither party got its ultimate goal.