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TOP UN COURT SAYS ISRAEL'S OCCUPATION OF PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES IS ILLEGAL

By Stephanie van den Berg and Emily Rose
July 19, 202410:13 PM GMT+2Updated 5 months ago
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THE HAGUE, July 19 (Reuters) - The United Nations' highest court said on Friday
that Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories and settlements there are
illegal and should be withdrawn as soon as possible, in its strongest findings
to date on the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
The advisory opinion by judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ),
known as the World Court, was not binding but carries weight under international
law and may weaken support for Israel.
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"Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and the regime
associated with them, have been established and are being maintained in
violation of international law," President Nawaf Salam said, reading the
findings of a 15-judge panel.
The court said Israel's obligations include paying restitution for harm and "the
evacuation of all settlers from existing settlements".
In a swift reaction, Israel's foreign ministry rejected the opinion as
"fundamentally wrong" and one-sided, and repeated its stance that a political
settlement in the region can only be reached by negotiations.
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"The Jewish nation cannot be an occupier in its own land," Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said in a statement.
The opinion also angered West Bank settlers as well as politicians such as
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, whose nationalist religious party is close to
the settler movement and who himself lives in a West Bank settlement.
"The answer to The Hague - Sovereignty now" he said in a post on the social
media platform X, in an apparent appeal to formally annex the West Bank.

Israel Gantz, head of the Binyamin Regional Council, one of the largest settler
councils, said the ICJ opinion was "contrary to the Bible, morality and
international law".


'NO COMPLICITY'

The ICJ opinion also found that the U.N. Security Council, the General Assembly
and all states have an obligation not to recognise the occupation as legal nor
"render aid or assistance" toward maintaining Israel's presence in the occupied
territories.

The United States is Israel's biggest military ally and supporter.
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The Palestinian Foreign Ministry called the opinion "historic" and urged states
to adhere to it.
"No aid. No assistance. No complicity. No money, no arms, no trade...no actions
of any kind to support Israel's illegal occupation," Palestinian envoy Riyad
al-Maliki said outside the court in The Hague.
The case stems from a 2022 request for a legal opinion from the U.N. General
Assembly, predating the war in Gaza that began in October.
Israel captured the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem - areas of historic
Palestine which the Palestinians want for a state - in the 1967 Middle East war
and has since built settlements in the West Bank and steadily expanded them.
Israeli leaders argue the territories are not occupied in legal terms because
they are on disputed lands, but the United Nations and most of the international
community regard them as occupied territory.
In February, more than 50 states presented their views before the court, with
Palestinian representatives asking the court to find that Israel must withdraw
from all the occupied areas and dismantle illegal settlements.
Israel did not participate in the oral hearings but filed a written statement
telling the court that issuing an advisory opinion would be "harmful" to
attempts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The majority of states participating asked the court to find the occupation
illegal, while a handful, including Canada and Britain, argued it should refuse
to give an advisory opinion.
The United States had asked the court not to order the unconditional withdrawal
of Israeli forces from the Palestinian territories.
The U.S. position was that the court should issue no decision that could hurt
negotiations toward a two-state solution on a "land for peace" principle.
In 2004 the ICJ gave an advisory ruling that an Israeli separation barrier
around most of the West Bank was illegal and Israeli settlements were
established in breach of international law. Israel dismissed that ruling.
(This story has been corrected to fix the former Palestinian foreign minister
al-Maliki's title in paragraph 13)

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Reporting by Stephanie van den Berg, James Mackenzie, Charlotte Van Campenhout,
Bart Meijer. Writing by Toby Sterling Editing by Ros Russell, Peter Graff and
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