Top U.N. court says Israel's occupation of West Bank is contrary to international law
toggle captionThe top United Nations court in the Hague said Friday that Israel’s 57-year occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem is “unlawful” and called on Israel to cease its presence in the occupied territories, including dismantling Israel settlements there and paying reparations.is non-binding and is unlikely to have much real impact on the ground in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, where the UN estimates around 700,000 Israelis live.
"The State of Israel is under the obligation to bring an end to its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory as rapidly as possible," said ICJ President Nawaf Salam, who delivered the decision for the 15-member court.rejected the decision, condemning its reasoning as “lies.” Netanyahu said, “The Jewish people are not conquerors in their own land.”
amounts to genocide, an accusation that Israel denies. It launched its devastating campaign to destroy Hamas after the Palestinian militant group mounted a surprise attack against Israel, killing around 1,200 people according to Israel. The war in Gaza has killed more than 38,000 people, according to Gaza’s health ministry.
Settlements in the Gaza Strip were dismantled in 2005, when Israel withdrew from the southern coastal enclave. Two years later Hamas, an Islamist group, took control of the territory in a brief civil war with its secular rivals Fatah. Israel imposed restrictions on goods entering the area, a blockade that tightened even further during its military campaign after the October 7 attack by Hamas.
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