The Age & Sydney Morning Herald / AP| Mike Corder | 21 July 2024
About time – but Netanyahu will simply ignore the ruling and nobody will have the guts to do anything about it – Mark
The top UN court has ruled Israel’s presence in the occupied Palestinian territories is ‘‘unlawful’’ and called on it to end and for settlement construction to stop immediately, issuing an unprecedented condemnation of Israel’s rule over the lands it captured 57 years ago.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quickly denounced the nonbinding opinion issued by the 15-judge panel of the International Court of Justice, saying the territories are part of the Jewish people’s historic ‘‘homeland’’. But the resounding breadth of the decision could affect international opinion and fuel moves for unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state.
The judges pointed to a wide list of policies, including the building and expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, use of the area’s natural resources, the annexation and imposition of permanent control over lands and discriminatory policies against Palestinians, all of which it said violated international law.
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