Palestine demands end to Israeli occupation at ICJ hearings
Al Jazeera
Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki urges judges to order an end to Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories.
Representatives for Palestine have called for an end to the occupation of Palestinian territories and the system of apartheid enforced by Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki and Palestine’s United Nations envoy Riyad Mansour, along with several academic and legal experts, represented Palestine at the hearings that began in The Hague on Monday and will last through February 26.
The case, which is separate from the genocide case by South Africa against Israel for its ongoing deadly war on Gaza, is to determine the legal consequences of Israel’s decades-long occupation of Palestinian territories.
In December 2022, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) passed a resolution calling on the ICJ to give an advisory or nonbinding opinion on Israel’s 57-year occupation of Palestinian territories. It received 87 votes in favour, with the United States being among 26 to vote no.
Reporting from the Hague, Al Jazeera’s Bernard Smith said there are two questions that all submissions will have to address.
