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The United Nations’ top court said on Friday that Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem is illegal in an advisory opinion.

The opinion from the International Court of Justice stated that “Israel is under an obligation to bring to an end its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory as rapidly as possible.” An advisory opinion is not legally binding but carries moral authority and can shape international law, according to the ICJ.

” The court also found that the declaration of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital helped to “entrench Israel’s control of the occupied Palestinian territory.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other politicians rejected the opinion. “The Jewish people are not conquerors in their own land,” Netanyahu said in a statement. “Neither in our eternal capital Jerusalem nor in the land of our ancestors in Judea and Samaria,” referring to the occupied West Bank.

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