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ICJ ON ISRAELI OCCUPATION UPDATES: PALESTINIANS DEMAND IMMEDIATE END
Top United Nations court hears submissions on legal consequences of occupation
of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem.
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By Nils Adler
Published On 19 Feb 202419 Feb 2024
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A RECAP OF TODAY’S DEVELOPMENTS
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key developments:
* Palestinian representatives at the International Court of Justice (ICJ)
presented their arguments on the legal consequences of Israel’s occupation
of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip.
* They argued that the existence and exercise of the Palestinian right to
self-determination is not and can never be a matter of negotiation.
* Paul Reichler, a legal representative, said the fundamental objective of
the occupation is the “permanent acquisition of the maximum amount of
Palestinian territory with the minimum number of Palestinians in it”.
* The Palestinian representatives also asked the ICJ to declare that
Israel’s discriminatory practices against the Palestinian people are
tantamount to apartheid.
* They also stated that the Israeli occupation was illegal and must be
brought to an immediate, unconditional and total end.
* A visibly emotional Riyad Mansour, Palestine’s envoy to the United
Nations, concluded the arguments by telling the ICJ that a ruling which
deemed Israeli occupation illegal and “the legal consequences from this
determination” would pave the way “to just and lasting peace”.
* Proceedings continue tomorrow at 09:00 GMT, with representatives from
South Africa, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, the Netherlands, Bangladesh and
Belgium presenting their arguments.
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19 Feb 2024 - 13:40
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ICJ PROCEEDINGS ‘MUST LEAD TO SOME SORT OF GEOPOLITICAL CHANGE’
* Marwan Bishara
Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst
We’ve heard that there must be accountability in order to achieve justice and
peace, and that can never be achieved without the type of accountability that
we began to witness today at the ICJ.
However, the cynicism of our international system lies in the notion that it
boasts of international law, but at the same time, the application of that
same international law is constantly blocked by the nature of geopolitics.
Therefore, when there is a nation that is not exactly losing a war and is
supported by a powerful bloc comprised of the United States and Europe, then
the possibility for accountability becomes almost impossible.
All of these proceedings that we’ve heard today must lead to some sort of a
geopolitical change, and I believe that that change will not come necessarily
from the UN Security Council because the United States and the UK will
probably veto such proposals.
But it will certainly come from the court of public opinion and local courts
from various countries around the world.
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19 Feb 2024 - 13:35
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WATCH: ‘PALESTINE WAS NOT A LAND WITHOUT A PEOPLE’
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki kicked off the proceedings. Watch
part of his statement below:
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19 Feb 2024 - 13:30
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PALESTINIANS ‘HAVE NO INTENTION OF LEAVING’
* Nida Ibrahim
Reporting from Bethlehem, occupied West Bank
An advisory opinion by the ICJ in 2004 deemed Israel’s separation wall in the
occupied West Bank illegal.
But Israel did not abide by that, and since then, we’ve seen the wall being
built across most areas of the occupied West Bank
With it, we are also seeing other manifestations of the occupation:
surveillance cameras, military towers, gates and checkpoints.
Palestinians are under military occupation. This means not only land
dispossessed, not only theft of homes, demolitions and raids but also the
fact that every little detail of their lives is controlled and centred around
the actions of the Israeli military occupation.
Palestinians say all of these Israeli measures are intended to make life so
miserable for them so that they would go and find somewhere else to live.
But the Palestinians we’ve been speaking to say that this is their land, this
is their country, this is where they’ve been born and have been staying for
decades. They have no intention of leaving.
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19 Feb 2024 - 13:10
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WATCH: ‘RULING COULD CHANGE WORLD FOR PALESTINIANS’
Paul Reichler argued earlier that the UN’s top court cannot remain silent and
its words could ‘change the world’.
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19 Feb 2024 - 13:05
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PALESTINIAN ARGUMENTS WERE CLEAR, COMPREHENSIVE AND CONVINCING
* Marwan Bishara
Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst
The Palestinians and their legal team have presented their case today in a
very similar way to that one presented by South Africa last month about the
question of Gaza and genocide.
But here, on the question of the occupation, I think Riyad Mansour’s closing
arguments were clear, comprehensive and convincing.
As a student of this issue, I am familiar with most of the arguments
presented here. But to hear them coming together the way they were presented,
in such a coherent way over the past three hours of argumentation, the
conclusion one can draw more than anything else is the fact that this illegal
occupation is the source of violence and violations of individual and
collective Palestinian human rights.
What the Palestinian legal team showed us today is that this occupation is
the one that’s paving the way and allowing the deepening of illegal
colonisation. It’s also allowing deepening racism and it’s also perpetuating
the confiscation and illegal grabbing of land and the erection of the
apartheid system.
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19 Feb 2024 - 13:00
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WATCH: ISRAEL ‘SYSTEMATICALLY DENIES’ PALESTINIANS’ RIGHT TO LIFE, ICJ HEARS
Namira Negm told the ICJ that Israel uses a “toolbox of population control
and inhumane acts” that restrict “every aspect of Palestinians’ life from
birth to death”.
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19 Feb 2024 - 12:47
(12:47 GMT)
A RECAP OF WHAT HAPPENED TODAY
* Bernard Smith
Reporting from The Hague
It was impossible, really, not to be moved listening to Riyad Mansour
concluding the Palestinian arguments.
And we saw Mansour himself moved to tears and breaking up as he described how
international law has not protected Palestinian children in Gaza or the
occupied West Bank.
Before he spoke, there were about three hours of clearly reasoned legal
arguments from legal experts appointed by the Palestinian Authority
explaining why they believe the court should deliver an opinion that Israel’s
56-year occupation of the West Bank and Gaza is illegal.
Among those arguments, we heard how Israel is deliberately settling occupied
land – there are now 700,000 Israeli settlers living in the occupied West
Bank – and how that demographic manipulation is a breach of international
law.
We heard how Palestinians are treated differently by the law compared with
Israelis and how that is effectively apartheid and we heard how Israel is
making no secret of its slow and steady annexation of the West Bank and how
it prevents Palestinians from returning to the land that was seized during
the Nakba.
Highly respected legal expert Paul Reichler, who represented the
Palestinians, also said that a permanent occupation is a “legal oxymoron”,
adding that the best and possibly last hope for a two-state solution is for
the court to declare that the ongoing occupation is illegal.
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19 Feb 2024 - 12:38
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AND THAT’S IT FROM THE REPRESENTATIVES OF PALESTINE
Mansour’s – at times, emotional – closing statement has brought today’s
proceedings to an end.
The court will meet again tomorrow at 09:00 GMT to hear from South Africa,
Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Netherlands, Bangladesh and Belgium.
But stay with us as we continue our live coverage with analyses of and
reactions to all of today’s developments.
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