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Nov 23 • 5 tweets • 5 min read
The demolition this morning of the donor-funded Isfey school in #MasaferYatta, ordered by the outgoing @yairlapid-@gantzbe #Israeli government, in grave breach of #IHL and to the absolute detriment of #Palestinian children attending the school leads to two observations: Image
The outgoing #Israeli government, sworn in on 13 June 2021 destroyed 1.237 structures in the occupied West Bank, including 201 donor-funded structures provided as humanitarian relief by @NRC_Norway and partners. As a result, 37,000 #Palestinians were deprived of a home, a school
The outgoing #Israeli government outdid the damage caused by the previous, and the incoming @netanyahu @bezalelsm @itamarbengvir government promises to bring more violent destruction. Violence, against all civilians #Palestinians and #Israelis, should be unequivocally condemned.
Calling for calm would remain empty rhetoric unless parties who violate international law are held to account, and the root causes - an acquisitive and pervasive #Israeli occupation and the denial of #Palestinian self-determination - are addressed, reversed, and redressed.
@dror_etkes points out that Israeli authorities, adding insult to injury, 'outsourced' the demolition to the inhabitants of an adjacent informal settlement outpost, at aprox 2,300 USD. Settlers profit from demolitions and the expropriation and reappropriation of #Palestinian land Image

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Nov 25
The Coalition Agreement between @netanyahu's Likud and @itamarbengvir's Jewish Power names the latter Minister of National Security, where he would be able to torment #Palestinian citizens of #Israel, Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem, and across the West Bank.
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Speaking this morning, #Israeli coalition-government senior member Bezalel Smotrich (Religious Zionism-Jewish Power) refers to human rights organizations as an 'existential threat to #Israel", vows to seize funding of #Palestinian, Israeli, and international humanitarian actors.
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Nov 10
The @CIJ_ICJ Advisory Opinion on the question of self-determination of #Palestinians, a thread to (briefly) explain the why and how.
What is an @CIJ_ICJ advisory opinion? opinions rendered by the Court contribute to the clarification and development of international law and thereby to the strengthening of peaceful relations between States.
Who can ask for an adviory opinion? In accordance with Article 96, paragraph 1, of the Charter of the United Nations “[t]he General Assembly or the Security Council may request the International Court of Justice to give an advisory opinion on any legal question”.
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Nov 8
.@Palestine_UN tables a #UNGA77 resolution calling for an @CIJ_ICJ advisory opinion on the legal consequences arising from #Israel’s ongoing violation of the right of #Palestinian self-determination, its prolonged occupation, and annexation of Palestinian territory. Text follows:
Decides, in accordance with Article 96 of the Charter of the United Nations, to request the @CIJ_ICJ pursuant to Article 65 of the Statute of the Court, to urgently render an advisory opinion, on the following questions, considering the rules and principles of international law,
including the Charter of the @UN, international humanitarian law, international human rights law, relevant Security Council, General Assembly and @UN_HRC resolutions, and the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice of 9 July 2004:
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On Monday, the @UN Security Council will address the implementation of #SCR2334, with @UNSCO_MEPP presenting the biannual implementation report. In the lead-up to the debate, @NRC_Norway briefed most Council Members; here is what I had stressed:
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While the General Assembly could choose to discuss and vote on the current #RussiaUkraine conflict independently, the goal of several Council members is to send a strong political signal by pursuing a Security Council. “Uniting for Peace” resolution.
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