Given its widespread and systematic disregard for international legal norms in its control and
exploitation of #Palestinian territory, #Israel cannot be considered a "lawful occupant," but instead the @CIJ_ICJ should find its prolonged occupation to be in serious breach of peremptory norms of international law.
exploitation of #Palestinian territory, #Israel cannot be considered a "lawful occupant," but instead the @CIJ_ICJ should find its prolonged occupation to be in serious breach of peremptory norms of international law.
An @CIJ_ICJ determination later this afternoon that #Israel has become an illegal occupant - whose actions deny #Palestinian self-determination and result in exacerbated humanitarian needs - would elevate the duty of the international community to end the occupation. Such a determination by the #ICJ would re-establish the framework of international law as the guiding path to a just and
durable resolution to the question of #Palestine.
durable resolution to the question of #Palestine.
The @CIJ_ICJ finds that it has material jurisdiction over the questions addressed to it, and that the questions are justiciable. It rejects opposing views that it would be improper for it to opine on this matter considered by the Security Council.
The @CIJ_ICJ further holds that in order for it to answer the questions addressed to it, it would have to "determine the legality of #Israel's continued presence in occupied #Palestinian territory (the West Bank including East Jerusalem and the #Gaza Strip)."
The @CIJ_ICJ decides that #Israel's combined policies and practices amount to territorial acquisition of #Palestinian territory by force - annexation by any means - and the oppression of the Palestinian people inalienable rights, and is therefore unlawful.
The @CIJ_ICJ also determines that #Israel's unlawful policies undermines #Palestinians right to self determination, and their continuation would further prejudice that right.
The @CIJ_ICJ therefore decides that #Israeli acquisition of territory and obstruction of #Palestinian sovereignty has rendered Israeli continued presence in the West Bank and Gaza unlawful, a presence which must end unconditionally. This is the beginning of the end of Israeli occupation.
#Israel has an obligation to bring its occupation to an end immediately, repealing all measures that are internationally wrongful - including dismantling all settlements , removing all settlers, and allowing the return of forcibly transfered Palestinians - and provide reparations in full to its #Palestinian victims.
@CIJ_ICJ All states - and the United Nations as such - are obligated to not recognize (as lawful), aid or assist the unlawful #Israeli presence in occupied #Palestinian territory, and must cooperate in bringing to an end, ensuring compliance by Israel.
As the Court decided in 1971 with respect to South Africa's occupation of Namibia, #Israel's presence in #Palestine is unlawful and the UN General Assembly and Security Council should prescribe "precise modalities to rapidly bring Israeli presence to an end." The onus is on the international community to do so immediately and effectively, this unlawful occupation should not be allowed to continue.
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