Palestine demands end to Israeli occupation at ICJ hearing | Israel War on Gaza News

International Minister Riyad al-Maliki urges judges on the Worldwide Courtroom of Justice to order an finish to Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories.

Representatives for Palestine have known as for an finish to the occupation of Palestinian territories and the system of apartheid enforced by Israel on the Worldwide Courtroom of Justice (ICJ).

Palestinian International Minister Riyad al-Maliki and Palestine’s United Nations envoy Riyad Mansour, together with a number of tutorial and authorized consultants, represented Palestine on the hearings that started in The Hague on Monday and can final by means of February 26.

The case, which is separate from the genocide case by South Africa against Israel for its ongoing lethal battle on Gaza, is to find out the authorized penalties of Israel’s decades-long occupation of Palestinian territories.

In December 2022, the UN Basic Meeting (UNGA) passed a resolution calling on the ICJ to present an advisory or nonbinding opinion on Israel’s 57-year occupation of Palestinian territories. It obtained 87 votes in favour, with the US being amongst 26 to vote no.

Reporting from the Hague, Al Jazeera’s Bernard Smith stated there are two questions that every one submissions must handle.

“The primary is what are the authorized penalties of the continuing occupation of the Palestinian territories by Israel and stopping the Palestinians from their self-determination by prolonging the occupation, settlement constructing and annexation of the Palestinian territories,” he stated.

“After which the second query is how these insurance policies have an effect on the authorized standing of the occupation and what are the authorized penalties that come up for all states, not simply Israel.”

On the listening to on Monday, Mansour stated Israel should bear the implications of actions that run counter to worldwide legislation, not be rewarded for them. He described tearfully how worldwide legislation has failed to guard Palestinian kids.

“We name on you to verify that the Israeli presence within the occupied Palestinian territory is prohibited and that its occupation should come to a right away, full and unconditional finish,” he stated.

“With out accountability, there isn’t a justice; and with out justice, there might be no peace.”

Palestine’s representatives, together with Namira Negm, elaborated intimately how Israel’s insurance policies and practices within the occupied Palestinian territories amount to apartheid.

Amnesty Worldwide additionally issued a press release on Monday saying Israel should finish its “brutal” occupation of Palestine “to cease fuelling apartheid and systematic human rights violations”.

Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst, says the ICJ shouldn’t be judging whether or not the occupied Palestinian territories are occupied, since that’s already decided by UN Safety Council resolutions, however whether or not Israel desires to show extended occupation into de facto annexation.

“All the pieces about this occupation seems everlasting,” he stated, including that that is demonstrated by the spreading of Israeli settlements.

Palestinian lawyer Muhammed Dahleh stated the hearings are extraordinarily vital because the Palestinians have been making an attempt for many years to make use of worldwide legislation and worldwide diplomacy to convey consideration to their trigger to no avail.

“This addition now of the advisory opinion by the Worldwide Courtroom of Justice may imply that really many international locations on this planet could have a authorized foundation to take care of the Israeli occupation and perhaps even the Israeli state and the Israeli authorities otherwise,” Dahleh instructed Al Jazeera from occupied East Jerusalem.

After the final listening to is held on February 26, the judges are anticipated to take a number of months to deliberate earlier than issuing an advisory opinion.

That is the second time the ICJ, upon a request from the UNGA, has been requested for an advisory opinion associated to the occupied Palestinian territory.

In July 2004, the World Courtroom discovered that Israel’s separation wall within the occupied West Financial institution violated worldwide legislation and must be torn down. The wall nonetheless stands to today.

Israel shouldn’t be collaborating on this week’s hearings and reacted angrily to the 2022 UN request, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calling it “despicable” and “disgraceful”.