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.
In an unprecedented move, the West Bank gendarmerie (Border Police) will report to Ben-Gvir and not to the Israeli military commander of occupied #Palestinian territory. It represents a risk to Palestinians and a formal, de jure, #annexation of the West Bank in its entirety.
When the formal annexation of the West Bank came up before (in the context of the @realDonaldTrump Plan), the international community mobilized to prevent it. This is annexation, mobilization is again required.
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:
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.
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.
These concerning statements, in some iteration, will make their way to the coalition agreements that define the legislative agenda and policies of the incoming Israeli government. The international community will have to double down on preserving civic and humanitarian space.
In @KnessetENG just now, @bezalelsm: 'we will put our hand over their finances, address legal and security aspects. We have enough tools to deal with them.'
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”.
.@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:
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:
The resolution demanded that #Israel immediately and completely cease all
settlement activities in occupied #Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem,
and that it fully respects all of its legal obligations, including under the Fourth Geneva Convention #IHL.
In blatant disregard of the authoritative guidance of the #UNSC and peremptory norms of international law, consecutive #Israeli governments established 279 settlements, transferring 800K of its nationals to the territory of #Palestine; 1 out of 10 Israelis is now a settler.
According to @SCRtweets, later this evening the Security Council is expected to vote on a draft resolution calling for an “emergency special session” (ESS) of the @UN General Assembly to consider and recommend collective action on the situation in #Ukraine.
The draft resolution, tabled by @AlMissionUN and @USUN, is a #unitingforpeace resolution, referring a situation in which its permanent members are deadlocked to the General Assembly. If adopted, it would be the first such resolution the Council has adopted in four decades.
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.