Sky News reports on Brazil's President Lula at the UN:

On the situation in Gaza, Lula says the "terrorist attacks perpetrated by Hamas are indefensible from [sic] angle but nothing justified the ongoing genocide".

"Under tonnes of rubble are buried tens of thousands of innocent women and children," he adds.

"We can see that international humanitarian law... is also being buried there."

While the 'international rules-based order' looked on - or more accurately averted their eyes - international humanitarian law was first cremated and then buried in Gaza.

As another nail in the coffin, the USA is considering raising further sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC) to cripple its ability to function - a court that was once lauded by Human Rights Watch when it put Milosovic on trial:

[https://www.hrw.org/news/2002/02/11/milosevic-and-icc]

(The Hague) - When the history of international justice is written, the trial of Slobodan Milosevic will appear as an important landmark for his victims. But it will also be seen as a prelude to the permanent International Criminal Court, the most important new human rights institution in more than half a century. His trial begins Tuesday, February 12, in the Hague. 
 
The International Criminal Court is only a few months away. Sixty states must ratify the treaty for the court to be established; as the Milosevic trial begins in The Hague, fifty-two states have ratified. The court's jurisdiction will commence sixty to ninety days after the sixtieth ratification.  
 
So the International Criminal Court should get underway this summer. The first assembly of states who are members of the court is scheduled to take place in New York, at United Nations headquarters, in the first week of September.  

Now all this talk of a 'important landmark for ... victims' looks like a sick joke.

It'll be a landmark alright ... when it's converted into a food court in the newly built ICC International Hotel on the Gaza beachfront.