The International Court of Justice has begun a series of hearings on Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine in The Hague.
For five days, the UN’s highest court will be considering the legal implications of Israel’s policies and actions, and what they mean for all other UN member states.
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki made the opening statement, with a reminder of the numerous aspects of Palestinian life affected by Israeli occupation.
Paul Reichler is the lawyer representing Palestine in front of the ICJ.
He says Israeli occupation is permanent and this in itself is a violation of international law.
Al Jazeera’s Bernard Smith is monitoring the latest developments at The Hague outside the International Court of Justice.
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Palestine will be free by will of Allah 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 Israel is biggest terrorist country
Downright lie! It is other way round! But what else can be expected from people who want to see the demise of Israel.
Is there a Palestine stata???
Palestine is not a nation never has been
Thank you, Al Jazeera, for your excellent & unstinting coverage. Thank you for not letting the public look away while the atrocities continue.
I’m in Canada, you offer the best & most insightful coverage I can find. Finally, after watching your videos for months : SUBSCRIBED.
The end to all this is to give back the hostages and remove the settlements in westbank but isreal does not want this
Maybe Palestinians should have accepted the two state solution and actually had a nation instead of deciding to form a terrorist enclave instead.
🌐🌏 The World must put a Stop and Hold ISRAEL Accountable for Committing Genocide/Holocaust in Gaza; and Unimaginable, Horrific War Crimes against Humanity! May there be peace and goodwill on Earth. Love and Light to Humanity. 💖🙏🏼
What a hoard of hypocrites! Where was the holy uproar when Egypt had Gaza under thumb for thirty-five years? And Syria the lands of Judea and Samaria? Not a peep. And where is the complaining about the two and one half million refugees. in Jordan, who just happen not to be the ‘right’ type of Arab? Hypocrites, snakes, and liars.
No one is Palestinian.Jews had Palestinian Passports till 1948.
Who is Palestinian today ? Jews or Arabs.,? No one.
Palestinian was a Nationality not a Race.
So called Palestinians are nothing but Arabs. All aspects of their Identity are Arabian.
Palestinian Race was manufactured in Egypt in 1964.
B4 that it was unheard of.
All the judgements against Israel – whether by ICJ or UNGA – will not make an once of difference to Israel – while it has the unconditional & unwavering support of the USA & EU
Israel knows it can count on USA-EU political leadership since it controls various political funding & powerful lobby group made of staunch Zionists in both entities.
These leaders are beholden to Israel – not other way round.
Hence Netanyahu struts around like Emperor of the Western World.
He tells his party & coalition partners to leave the EU & USA to him.
He boasts he can sort them both out & Israelis should not worry about USA-EU
As the “chosen ones” they are above all of humanity’s ethics, morals & condemnation.
They see themselves as the “ divine untouchables” but in reality are Satan’s henchmen!
Damme falastini 🙏🇵🇸🍉👍🇮🇳❤️✌️
Pariah it is. Shame on Israel
It was illegal from the beginning when the UK Balfour declaration, the mandate led to the occupation and apartheid of the Palestinian people and land. Thank you Al Jazeera for this coverage.
Palestinians are the illegal occupiers. Israel is Israel thousands of years ago. Palestinians as they call themselves are Arabs from different parts of the Middle East during the Ottoman Empire. You can criticize whatever you want and twist the history but the truth will always comes out. The devil will nit prevail. Your Hamas is done.
WHAT??!!? Five more days is like months to starving people. DROP FOOD BY AIR FOR GOD’s SAKE, Israel has gone insane and could care less about any of your legal proceedings. SEND FOOD NOW.
Ya!hu!d very well know Allah’s plan which is unalterable and will be ultimate.
Where was Palestine before why Palestine didnt file case on ISREAL for occupation before 7th ?answer is the Palestine people were enjoying the aid from UN that time they had no time to go to ICJ ?they killed innocent isreali civilians on 7th and thought the world would save tham after 7th and now when isreal is punishing tham hard and had no option to go to ICJ!where was the world leader’s before who are now barking loudly!educated idiots
The australian government is aiding the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians by providing Israel somewhere to send them as refugees
5:35 Two State Solution ??
How about a separate State for Jews in Arab Countries.?? Jews were there for 1000s of yrs.
About 4 or 5 years ago I bought a magazine that had an article about archeological excavations they had going in Jerusalem, Palestine and I remember it talking about how Palestinians were upset and claiming that Israel was intentionally destroying artifacts that specifically linked Palestinian culture and people to the land… It is 100% true.
They have been trying to claim that Palestinians aren’t indigenous and have been working tirelessly to destroy any evidence and proof of otherwise for decades.
This article was half a decade ago, well before this current controversy… Ishrael is a gen0ciidal nation and has been slowly working toward this very goal since the 1940’s when they invaded in the first place.
As usual ,Israel will be allowed to continue without consequences,so why are they at the Hague,nothing will be done
My how the retoric has changed. It was just a bit ago that the Palestinians were chanting “From the River to the Sea” !!!! Now their getting bombed, it’s a different story ?? Sorry but you did this to yourselves !!!
Unfortunately like the influence of kings in the old days politics Trump’s all I believe Israel prime minister is purposely trying to cause Biden to lose the elections because he would rather Trump be in office to support Israel agenda like establishing Israel embassy on occupied land
Who cares what palestine 🇵🇸 says , it stands on deaf ears
As long as America remains amoral and unethical, the world is unsafe; as long as the United States remains as the guardian of Israel, the people of Palestine won’t get proper justice from the UNO and its affiliated institutions.
America, “‘live up to their word”. Good luck with that.
Humanity MUST support Palestine at any cost. I s rae l funded and founded HAMAS. These are facts. False flag to start a land expansion and to capture the Levant Gas fields off of Gaza coast. They also have plans for a canal to compete with the Suez. Roads are aleady being paved thru GAZA to allow production logistics to start. Ignore the propaganda and lies. Support Palestine.
And no matter what the court decides Israel will ignore it. It will continue to ignore UN resolutions and if a motion gets to the Security Council then Israel’s puppet the United States of As$#*les will veto it.
Such a joke, this court. It takes months or months for them to make a decisionsuch a joke despindous.
Why is the ICJ taking so long? Everyday someone is dying in Gaza and they want to wait over a year to make a decision.
Why 57 members of OIC are in abaya?
Haters are going to hate.
The US position can be summed up as: Israel needs to win 100%. Any Palestinian “state” must be a bantustan. This can only be achieved if Israel has maximum leverage. Therefore, that the occupation is ruled illegal is immaterial. Israel has the total right to maintain it so long as the Palestinians do not accept a bantustan and total surrender in general. Look at the approach to a ceasefire… Biden’s position is that he is for one, but that the SC resolution must be vetoed to preserve the “process” in getting one… a process by which Israel is free to use food as a weapon and threaten the lives of 1.3 million people in Rafah, and through this, force the hoped-for surrender terms.
It’s really funny how you pro Hamas people project. The Arabs want to destroy Israel and murder all the Jews in it. Yet you accuse Israel of genocide.
I guess psychologically it’s necessary for you to project. It’s hard to admit you have such murderous impulses
As always, Israel has been backed by the US. The US want a military base in the Middle East and Israeli is it. Israel is the US’s eyes, ears and attack dog. How Netanyahu extrajudicial executions has Israeli carried out dir the US? This is why Israel still exists.
De facto, Israel is an absolutely sovereign state. The only others in the world are Russia, China and the US. Israel is absolutely sovereign THROUGH the United States and the control it exerts upon it. Otherwise, it has not the population, territory, or resources to enjoy such absolute sovereignty. Absolute sovereignty is demanded by Israel and leading Jewish groups as being essential to avoid Holocaust 2 which they claim is otherwise a certainty given that everyone supposedly wants to exterminate them. It’s insane, but that’s their argument.
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HAMAS HAS BEEN IN CONTROL OF PALESTINE SINCE 2006. HOW CAN THERE BE AN ADVANCED SYSTEM OF TUNNELS IF THERE WAS OCCUPATION AND APARTHIED. THESE TUNNELS BELONG TO HAMAS
As long as this government of Israel is sanction proof, and backed by America, They will continue what they have been doing for past 60 years. The day US stops supporting this government is the day people of Israel have no one to blame except themself. It is a sad facts that they have done the same thing through out their history. It is difficult to understand why they don’t learn from history.
The Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories is illegal. The court should issue its ruling.
No it isn’t. The only reason Israel occupies the West Bank is the Arabs attacked Israel with genocidal intent in 1967. Israel has every right to be there until the Arabs show they no longer want to destroy Israel. Do you think the Arabs can be trusted not to attack Israel if given a state on the West Bank? I dont
this is pay of what Muslim done to Jewish people during Ottoman Empire and Arab Empire and Muhammad time unheaded Jewish and rape jewish women
Talk talk talk, while people been killed
Dunia tdk pernah lihat negara sebiadab israel
We all have to search our conscience at the moment and in the future – did we take action against genocide or not? This is what we will all have to live with. Either you are pro-humanity or not. It is very simple. This genocide must end and Israel’s illegal occupation in Palestine must end – this is a pivotal point in history. The clandestine agreements made decades ago have now expired. international solidarity with Palestine and Palestinians.
All B/S
Isreal don’t have right to make decisions .
What Palestine nation?
There was never any such thing.
IRAN should be taken to the ICJ FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS
it’s true. anyone with a conscience can see that this is a genocide and atrocities and war crimes are being committed by the izrilis. only those who do not want to see cannot see this. or are paid not to see.
Waste of time , isn’t 75 years of war crimes against Palestinian civilians not evidance enough ? to hold Israel accountable for war crimes ? what more evidence dose the world need to see , that Israel is a Terrorist State .
6:00 What do you mean not binding?!?!? Make it binding! For Israel, it has to be binding! They got away with it for way too long. BOYCOTT DISVEST SANCTION CONDEMN ISRAEL FOR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY.
When it was Serbia on trial, everything was binding. Got Milosevich and Radovan Karadich in jail for life for genocide. and Now Israel is on trial for way worst plus crimes against humanity and nothing binding. Why the jews have special treatment again? Because everybody owe money or something to a jewish bank….
At the time those people who trampled over Palestine never asked any permission from the Palestians if they can live in their country and share the land. Legality was never there. Permission was never given by the Palestinians. I believe we need to go back to the roots of the problem. It was all a big illegal business that is going on for decades. And the biggest loser in the question about legality is England who promised land to zionist ..land that was not part of Brittain at all. Old colonial mindset that has obvious never got out of vogue. Good luck it trying to swallow their international pride and admit that they where wrong from the start …its so easy to talk about the fate of people far away from your bed and table, from the comfort and safety of their chairs,their job,their homes their country. They havent learned from ww 1 and 2. Palestine has all the right to their original land.
Lol. Dont ask Hamas what they want to do with Israel!
I wonder why gazans have not asking hamas to release their hostages ?or they choose to died more lives?
Did they say Palestinian wants israel to be eliminated from sea to sea? That sound genocidal intention by Palestinian against Israeli people.
ICJ must issue an opinion on hamas Palestinian staeted intent of genocide of Israelis too. Not that hamas cares what anybody says.
modern-day Palestinians share a genetic legacy with the ancient Philistines, further connecting them to their
Canaanite Heritage:
A 2021 study found that the predominant component of the DNA of modern Palestinians matches that of Bronze Age Palestinians (Canaanites) from around 2500 BCE.
This genetic continuity links modern Palestinians to their ancient ancestors who inhabited the region thousands of years ago2.
In summary, the DNA of modern Palestinians reflects a complex blend of ancient Canaanite heritage and more recent European contributions. 🧬🌍In other words they are rightfully there in their land which has over 75 years been taken off them usually violently by Zionist Jewish Population..
BS! PA share more genetic wth middle east arabs.
If you looked at the Canaanites or Philistine pottery, their arts&culture, there were no similar patterns to that of current Palestinian at all!
Otherwise South Africa can claim they were the Canaanites also😂
Jews are worse than nazis
Jews supply Gazza free water & electricity while Gazz con’t to fired thousands of rokets into Israel
yay!
100 %
This is the war against Palestinian is to acquire the land and resources of the palestin subject to that the people of the world nations are not mad except for European US & isralis
When you want to erase all life of a people you are committing genocide/holocaust.
I see leading Quran while am leading Bible..and I see there is lack of understanding…check Amosi 6:1
shme on you palastin is refuges..haaa
ICJ are toothless tigers .
Here’s a question. Will there be any Palestinians left after the world continues to talk without acting?
They deny Palestine living as people because they Zionist are animals.When stand side by side with Palestine the obvious Zionist Animalistic is visibly clear to be seen.Thats why they Zionist eradicate those who are humanly distinct in character like Palestinian and don’t wish to be compared how Zionist is behaving worst than animals.
change eveeything after oct7
if u loose the battle
the winner take it all😂😂😂
so dont cry be good to your neigthbor😅
in the 1920‘s there was even a Buick dealership in Haifa! From the river to the sea!
All Arab nations must cut off diplomatic relations with Israel asap unless Israeli left Palestinian land and let them run their life and their country.
I wouldn’t be surprised if we were taught lies about WW2 and Hitler’s objectives. Everyday I question what else they lied about that we dont know
what a horrifying race that sprout in a mankind that mark the era of cruelty…but then alway in a boiled water . in this new era still they possess such hatred behave as the most valued of human bieng but then they alway lost in loss dont have any istablish kingdom on the new world they need to occupy just to certify they are the choosen one …YES!.THE CHOOSEN TO SUFFER..from past era till the new world they are the great gypsies of modern history with UK emphathy…..now they again fell the heat of thier difference when no one as god favorites run only on their nightmare in pride…a glimpse to thier history they mostly share the role of last kind…not the beast one.🤣😭🤣😭🤣😭
Israel
Mentally colonize USA & UK
Too much true. Ought to be stopped. It’s the fate of humanity that is st stake here
Netanyahu will be the end of his country.
The US, as a Permanent member of the UN Security Council is the biggest threat to World Peace and stability !!
The US should be expelled from the UN and the UN should be relocated to a REAL Democracy ~
Johannesburg, South Africa !!
If you agree – Pass it on !!
Pariah vs Humanity. Rise, Global South!
Hamas has its agenda to erase Israel. Israel has as its agenda to live peacefully with Palestinians. Hamas started this war to erase Israel without any regard for the Gaza people. Israel is helping bring aid trucks to Gaza. Stand with Israel!
lol in 1890 ,when Zionism began, the Zionist owned almost nothing of Palestine. even back then there goal was take Palestine with as few non Jews as possible .
by 45 they owned just under 5%
by 47 just under 7% and in that year a European power offered a 33% minority made up of mostly recent europen immigrants 56% of the land
by 48 the Zionists had stolen 78% of Palestine, if you like may be just the 71% they did not own .
in 1967 they took control of all of what remained of Palestine and in that same year began there illegal settlements.
today there are more than 750.000 Jews living illegally in the west bank ,making any Palestinian state impossible . they are annexing the Jordan valley and all the good parts of the west bank .
they are also cutting Gaza in half and selling the licensees to the gas fields that belong to the Palestinians
you are either very ignorant or a propagandist. either way stop embarrassing your self
hamas may well want all the land that Zionists stole back .and some how in your mind wanting your land back makes you the bad guy ,while the people who stole it and are still stealing it are the victims ? Jesus
The objective and intention is very clear.
Took you long enough to work that out it was obvious right from the beginning of this that Israel wants to totally allianate Palestine ! I can’t believe the world leaders are standing by and doing NOTHING !!
Brutal war crimes. Will the ICJ have the backbone to uohold intrrnational law & the Geneva Conventions
😢 so sad
The list of travellers and pilgrims throughout the XVI to the XIX centuries c.e. that give a similar description of the Holy Land is quite longer, including Alphonse de Lamartine, Sir George Gawler, Sir George Adam Smith, Siebald Rieter, priest Michael Nuad, Martin Kabatnik, Arnold Van Harff, Johann Tucker, Felix Fabri, Edward Robinson and others. All of them found the land almost empty, except for Jewish communities in Jerusalem, Shechem, Hevron, Haifa, Safed, Irsuf, Cæsarea, Gaza, Ramleh, Acre, Sidon, Tzur, El Arish, and some towns in Galilee: Ein Zeitim, Pekiin, Biria, Kfar Alma, Kfar Hanania, Kfar Kana and Kfar Yassif. Even Napoleon I Bonaparte, having seen the need that the Holy Land would be populated, had in mind to enable a mass return of Jews from Europe to settle in the country that he recognized as theirs’ – evidently, he did not see any “Palestinian” claiming historical rights over the Holy Land, whose few inhabitants were mainly Jews
Concerning the Holy Land, the chairman of the Syrian Delegation at the Paris Peace Conference in February 1919 stated:
“The only Arab domination since the Conquest in 635 c.e. hardly lasted, as such, 22 years”.
The preceding declarations by Arab politicians have been done before 1967, as they had not the slightest knowledge of the existence of any Palestinian people. How and when did they change their mind and decided that such people existed? When the State of Israel was reborn in 1948 c.e., the “Palestinians” did not exist yet, the Arabs had still not discovered that “ancient” people. They were too busy with the purpose of annihilating the new Sovereign State and did not intend to create any Palestinian entity, but only to distribute the land among the already existing Arab states. They were defeated. They attempted again to destroy Israel in 1967, and were humiliated in only six days, in which they lost the lands that they had usurped in 1948. In those 19 years of Arab occupation of Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip, neither Jordan nor Egypt suggested to create a “Palestinian” state, since the still non-existing Palestinians would have never claimed their alleged right to have their own state… Paradoxically, during the British Mandate, it was not any Arab group but the Jews that were known as “Palestinians”
Still doesn’t excuse them from attacking Israel in the first case or taking hostages. They brought it upon themselves and the cannot play the victim card now.
How can something that never existed be erased? Couple this with the hypocrisy of Arab Terrorists and the PA working tirelessly and openly to annihilate every Jew, just what part of the Arab 1948 war cry is ambiguous about paving the road from Damascus to Tel Aviv with the skulls of Jews. Why is anyone listening when in some Freudian slip the Arabs accuse Israel of the very crime they are actively pursuing on a daily basis????
Throughout history, Australia has pursued the eradication of its indigenous peoples. Currently, the government persists in flooding the nation with immigrants while simultaneously seizing and claiming indigenous land for their own, imposing Western ideologies upon the native population. In earlier times, indigenous communities had avenues to safeguard their cultures, but in the present day, they confront the looming threat of decimation..
They could tell Hamas to surrender and it would probably be over, but instead they think it is good that Hamas hides in the civilian population so they are collateral damage. Why else would they not condemn them.
In 1948 the Arabs not only rejected the UN Partition Plan, but attacked Israel from all sides. On the day that Israel declared its independence, the Arab League Secretary, General Azzam Pasha declared “jihad”, a holy war. He said, “This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades”.(1) The Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin Al Husseini stated, “I declare a holy war, my Moslem brothers! Murder the Jews! Murder them all!” (2) The armies of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Iraq invaded the tiny new country with the declared intent of destroying it.(3)
Let the Palestinians live in peace. Israel is the old German count
Israil and icj are on everyones watch list the whole world is watching
No religious cult should think for a moment it should have a state. This is not the Vatican or Isis. The jews should go back and reabsorb completely into other nations like all modern religions have. The problems in the ARAB world would settle down. Antagonist Zionists thinking some back door double dealing by the colonial British and the UN legitimizes anything they dream up…like murder, theft and occupation. I call to reopen the Nuremberg trials and have them before it.
The jews are evil
Sounds like the legal team has been plagiarising Hamas’ charter, just swapping the names.
ZIONST ENTITY IS DEVILS SPAWN
No two state pAlistine only
Israel has a blueprint for erasing everything Palistine
Both buildings and people
From the river to the sea
All lands will belong to Israel