Labor is ‘carefully considering’ the ICJ findings on the occupied Palestinian territories – and soon it will have to give its view
File photo of a Palestinian village after a settler attack. Australia has announced sanctions against seven Israeli settlers and Hilltop Youth.File photo of a Palestinian village after a settler attack. Australia has announced sanctions against seven Israeli settlers and Hilltop Youth.It’s the bombshell legal ruling that made it politically impossible for the Australian government to continue to delay imposing sanctions on Israeli settlers.
These are significant accusations and the Israeli government denies them all. In some ways, however, the latest advisory opinion from the ICJ regarding the 57-year-long occupation of territories it seized in 1967, including the West Bank and East Jerusalem, has the potential to have the biggest impact.
So what does this mean for countries like Australia that have traditionally maintained friendly diplomatic relations with Israel? The ICJ said countries were obliged “not to recognise as legal the situation arising from the unlawful presence” and must not “render aid or assistance” in maintaining that situation.
A source with knowledge of the process said: “Some of the evidence presented to the minister included attacks against villagers with stones, clubs, arson, threatening people at gunpoint, as well as the use of drones to monitor and intimidate villagers.” But the Greens and Palestinian advocates argued the Labor government must sanction Netanyahu and members of his cabinet for their policies and actions – not just a handful of individual settlers.
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