Outside pressure is crucial to ensuring Israel comply with ICJ orders to end the occupation, they said.
Judges attend a public session of the International Court of Justice at the Peace Palace in The Hague, the Netherlands, on July 19, 2024.A group of UN human rights experts is calling UN member states to pressure Israel to comply with a recent court order to end its illegal occupation of Palestine using everything in their power, potentially including an arms embargo and cutting of diplomatic and financial ties.
“The Court has finally reaffirmed a principle that seemed unclear, even to the United Nations: Freedom from foreign military occupation, racial segregation and apartheid is absolutely non-negotiable,” the group said. “May this historic ruling begin the realisation of the Palestinian people’s fundamental right to self-determination, and peace premised on freedom for all.”
Many UN special rapporteurs — experts appointed by the UN to advise on human rights — and UN working group leaders signed the statement.Echoing longtime calls of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement led by Palestinian activists, the experts said member states must consider ending “all diplomatic, political and economic ties with Israel, inclusive of all business and finance, pension funds, academia and charities.
On top of these actions, states should participate in an arms embargo to Israel and implement targeted sanctions like the freezing of assets on individuals and entities that are perpetuating the occupation, segregation and apartheid in Palestine, they said. The experts added that anyone who is involved in perpetuating these crimes should be prosecuted.against Israel, filed before Israel began its ongoing bombing and starvation campaign against Palestinians in Gaza in October.
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