In an advisory opinion, the International Court of Justice reaffirmed the Palestinian right to self-determination.
Demonstrators gather outside the Peace Palace, home of the International Court of Justice, to demand a ceasefire and show support for Palestine and Nicarague, in The Hague, Netherlands, on April 30, 2024.Demonstrators gather outside the Peace Palace, home of the International Court of Justice, to demand a ceasefire and show support for Palestine and Nicarague, in The Hague, Netherlands, on April 30, 2024.
that displaced Palestinians and dispossessed them from their homes and land; it is supported — financially, militarily and diplomatically — by Western, primarily U.S., imperialism-serving war profiteers; and it is sustained by a combination of state-sanctioned violence and a system of apartheid that denies Palestinians — who form half the people in the land under Israeli control from the river to the sea — their equal rights.
Israel employs oppression, violence, persecution, checkpoints, house demolitions, displacement, expulsion, imprisonment, land theft, torture of children and collective punishment to ethnically cleanse non-Jewish inhabitants.the system. International human rights organizations, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, have issued extensive reports that concluded that.
that the United Nations, and especially the General Assembly, which requested this opinion, and the Security Council, should consider the precise modalities and further action required to bring to an end as rapidly as possible the unlawful presence of the State of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
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