By Editorial Team · Published · Updated
Source published: 4 Nov 2026 01:03 UTC
Urgency: Context · Evidence: Single source
What the sources establish
Al Jazeera Staff supplies the inspected election-result account, reporting separate General Assembly and Security Council votes on November 3 and naming Hmoud among the five elected judges. An official 2026 ballot return or election-completion record was not inspected. The UN-hosted ICJ Statute was read separately for independent judicial capacity and term rules; it does not verify this election. The result therefore remains single-source reporting, not independently corroborated. Detailed vote totals and ballot sequences are not adopted. No disagreement about Hmoud’s election or the reported term start was established. The timestamp is the article’s explicit UTC publication minute, not the voting hour. The Jordan marker represents Hmoud’s explicitly reported national association, not the election venue or the Court’s location. No national-government control of a judge, pending-case outcome, private address or itinerary is inferred.
Evidence last checked: 4 Nov 2026 01:56 UTC.
Sources
- Al Jazeera Public broadcaster
Staff account of the five-judge election, naming Hmoud of Jordan and the new terms; not an inspected official ballot return.
- United Nations Ownership / affiliation unverified
Primary ICJ Statute, Articles 2 and 13, establishing independent judicial capacity and nine-year renewable terms; legal context, not corroboration of the 2026 election result.