BREAKING: The Government of #Israel submits to the High Court of Justice that after 11 months of - debilitating and atrocious war in #Gaza - it has not accomplished 'effective control' in any part of Gaza, has not displaced any of Hamas's governmental functions, and is therefore not the occupying power (with commensurate obligations under #IHL).

Facts described are either an admission of a colossal military failure that has cost the lives of tens of thousands of Palestinians and the wanton destruction of Gaza, or entirely false. As the International Court of Justice @CIJ_ICJ ruled in July: before October 23' and even more so since, Israel had effective control of Gaza.

Israel, according to the ICJ decision, has obligations as the occupant of Gaza commensurate with its effective control. Irrespective of any decision by the Israeli constitutional court, it cannot invoke the provisions of its internal law as justification for its failure to perform its obligations under international humanitarian law.