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Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, was a proceeding before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the highest legal body of the United Nations (UN), stemming from a resolution adopted by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in December 2022 requesting the Court to render an advisory ...
Various Israeli cabinets have made political statements and many of Israel's citizens and supporters dispute that the territories are occupied and claim that use of the term "occupied" in relation to Israel's control of the areas has no basis in international law or history, and that it prejudges the outcome of any future or ongoing negotiations.
United Nations Security Council resolution 446, adopted on 22 March 1979, concerned the issue of Israeli settlements in the "Arab territories occupied by Israel since 1967, including Jerusalem". [1] This refers to the Palestinian territories of the West Bank , East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip as well as the Syrian Golan Heights .
These have stepped up since Israel's war on Gaza in response to the Hamas attacks, which killed 1,200 people, according to Israeli tallies. Israel has said it faces an existential threat by Hamas ...
Condemnation of Israel on various topics including the occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and the Golan Heights, war in Lebanon and the annexation of Jerusalem. 1984: 23 November: Resolution 39/14 : Reiterates the demand that Israel withdraw its threat to attack the nuclear facilities of neighbouring nations.
Israeli soldiers and protesters in Gaza during the Intifada. Growing Israeli settlement and continuing occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip led to the 1987 First Intifada, [87] [88] motivated by collective Palestinian frustration over Israel's military occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as it approached a twenty-year mark. [89]
Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories, which has continued since 1967 and is the longest military occupation in modern history, [1] has become illegal under international law. This illegality encompasses the West Bank , including Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem , as well as the blockaded Gaza Strip , which remains to be considered ...
A 1979 proceedings known as the "Elon Moreh" case (Dweikat et al. v. Government of Israel) the Israeli Supreme Court ended the use of military orders for the seizure of private Palestinian land for settlements and provided the impetus for Israel to establish a new legal basis for the requisition of land if it was to be used for settlement. [9]