According to the UN International Court of Justice, Israel must stop the occupation activities in the Palestinian territories immediately.
18:01•Updated 18:25
Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory violates UN international laws.
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) under the UN ruled on the matter on Friday.
– The court has stated that Israel’s continued presence in the Palestinian territories is illegal, president of the international court Nawaf Salam said according to news agency AFP.
According to the ISJ, Israel must stop the occupation immediately.
The UN is not only referring to the Gaza war that broke out on October 7 and Israel’s recent military activity in the Gaza Strip, but to Israel’s decades-long occupation of the Palestinian territories.
Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu reacted to the ICJ’s announcement by saying that Israelis cannot be occupiers in their own country and that the ICJ’s line distorts historical facts.
The ICJ has demanded that Israel stop the attack on Rafah
In February, the ICJ organized a hearing on the Palestinian territories, in which representatives of several countries participated. Most of those who participated in the hearing called on Israel to end the occupation that has lasted for more than 57 years.
However, the United States said Israel should not be forced to withdraw from the Palestinian territories without considering the country’s real security needs.
In May, the ICJ demanded that Israel stop the attack on Rafah in Gaza in May.
The court said at the time in its orderthat Israel must “immediately suspend its military operations in the Rafah area or any other activity that could create living conditions for the Palestinian group in Gaza that could cause its physical destruction in whole or in part.
Israel has continued to attack Rafah after the ICJ order.
Israel launched a ground operation in Gaza after the extremist organization Hamas attacked Israeli territory on October 7.
Source: AFP
The story was corrected on July 19 at 18:25: Contrary to what was said earlier in the story, the abbreviation of the International Court of Justice is ICJ, not ISJ.