For: The opinion
A few days after Benjamin Netanyah resumed his position as Prime Minister of Israel, the United Nations Organization (UN) asked the International Court of Justice (CIJ) to rule on the legal consequences of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories.
According to a Reuters report, the United Nations General Assembly voted in favor of the Hague Court issuing its opinion on the Israeli presence in territories Palestinians consider theirs and that it was taken from him in the 1960s.
The request for a court ruling on the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories was made in a resolution adopted by the General Assembly with 87 votes in favor. In the vote Israel, the United States and 24 other members voted against.
The UN General Assembly asked the court to issue an advisory opinion on the legal consequences of “the occupation, settlement and annexation […] including the measures aimed at altering the demographic compositionthe character and status of the Holy City of Jerusalem, and Israel’s adoption of related discriminatory laws and measures,” the agreement reads.
The UN also asks the ICJ to advise on how such policies and practices “affect the legal status of the occupation” and what legal consequences derive from this statute for all countries and the United Nations.
It is remembered that the last time the ICJ intervened in the conflict between Israel and Palestine it was in 2004, when it ruled that the Israeli separation wall was illegal.
The disputed territories
In the call War of the six days1967, Israel seized the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem This, which are areas that were occupied by the Palestinians and that they currently want to form a state.
The conflict between Israel and Palestine worsened more than 15 years ago when the Islamist group Hamas seized control of Gaza in 2007 after a brief civil war with more moderate Palestinian rivals. Since then, Hamas and Israel have fought three wars in Gaza.
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