🔴Now, the International Court of Justice is delivering its Advisory Opinion on Israel’s obligations concerning the presence & activities of the UN, other int'l organisations, and third States in relation to the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT).
Here we summarise main points from the Opinion (Continuously Updated)⬇️
📺 Watch live: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1w/k… 1/ The ICJ begins by outlining the scope of its opinion:
🔹 It does not determine whether Israel has violated international law
🔹 It identifies Israel’s legal obligations under international law
🔹 It focuses on the OPT broadly, with special attention to the Gaza Strip
🔹 Based on facts up to 2 May 2025

📌 The UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory @FranceskAlbs has released a critical new report exposing how corporations sustain Israel’s settler-colonial occupation. A thread 🧵
🔗 Read here: tinyurl.com/mww9w93r 1/ The report reveals how corporations are central to Israel’s settler-colonial project-, and, since Oct 2023, how they’ve supported and profited from its campaign of genocidal violence in #Gaza and beyond.

‼️🔴These days, we are witnessing an escalating and dangerous war against the @IntlCrimCourt (ICC) and HR organizations working with it to prosecute Israeli officials for #international_crimes. If the states parties to the #ICC fail to take a firm stand in support of the court, its staff, and its partners, the very foundation of the court -built on humanity’s sacrifices and pain- risks collapsing. This would jeopardize its independence & deny victims equal access to justice.
⚠️Here are 5 key risks the ICC faces in the coming days:🧵 1. Israel Hayom revealed that US President @realDonaldTrump plans to impose severe #sanctions on the ICC immediately after his inauguration (January 20). These include targeting #ICC judges and prosecutors, freezing their US-based assets, and limiting their access to routine banking services, including credit cards.
israelhayom.com/2025/01/02/tru…

🧵 Thread on the landmark 2024 ICJ Advisory Opinion regarding Israel's presence in the occupied Palestinian Territory and its legal implications for third states and the EU. This is based on a new expert legal opinion by Professor Ralph Wilde for Al Haq Europe (link at end). A must-read for understanding the law on this subject. #ICJ #Palestine #InternationalLaw
@alhaq_org @AlHaqEurope 1/ The 2024 Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) 🏛️ affirmed that Israel’s presence in the Palestinian Gaza Strip and West Bank, including East Jerusalem, is illegal under international law. This represents a fundamental shift in the legal understanding of the occupation compared to certain existing approaches.

🧵: A critical report by UN Special Rapporteur Michael Fakhri sheds light on Israel’s use of starvation as a genocidal tactic in Gaza, where humanitarian aid has been weaponised, and international law still fails to enforce accountability. #Gaza #RightToFood #Starvation 2/ 🚨 The occupation of and blockade on Gaza, intensified after 2007, has not only crippled its economy but also turned humanitarian aid into a tool of political control. Aid is being weaponised, forcing Palestinians into dependency while Israel tightens its grip on food and resources. #StarvationAsWar

🏛️🪩 Here are 11 key points to understand the recent International Court of Justice order on Nicaragua's case against Germany. Nicaragua accused Germany of violating the Genocide Convention by aiding Israel with military equipment and halting financial aid to UNRWA. A thread 🧵 1/11 Despite hopes that the court would halt Germany's arms exports to #Israel, especially considering #Germany provides about 29-30% of Israel's arms, the court didn’t issue this order, despite acknowledging the plausibility of #genocide claims in #Gaza in its previous order in January concerning the South Africa case against Israel. Why?

JUST RELEASED: L4P and partners submit legal analysis to the ICC establishing that the Israeli War Cabinet is committing the crime of genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza and should be investigated under the Rome Statute of the ICC.
🔗 tinyurl.com/2p8ykbsy
Since the 20th century, Zionist ideology has imposed a racist, apartheid regime on the Palestinian people. Modern Israeli leaders adhering to Zionism have made their intent to ethnically cleanse Palestine and justify the colonisation of Palestine very clear.

List of states so far expressing support for the South African case against Israel at the ICJ in The Hague, accusing the Israeli government of committing genocide crimes against Palestinians in Gaza:🧵 1. Brazil: gov.br/mre/pt-br/cana…

Missed out on last week's legal news related to Palestine? We've got you covered! Here's a list of the most important updates you shouldn't miss:🧵 @FranceskAlbs, UNSR on the oPt, tweeted: “Forced displacement is a crime against humanity. Israel has been perpetrating that with impunity…It has now taken it to a new level by terrorizing people through bombing, starvation and induced disease.”
tinyurl.com/36hvwhau

1/22 States such as the US and UK are complicit in #Israel’s ongoing #genocide against Palestinians, with potential criminal responsibility under international law.
This thread delves into the legal aspects of their complicity and the obligations to prevent genocide. #L4PThreads 2/22 #Complicity in genocide refers to "all acts of assistance or encouragement that have substantially contributed to or have had a substantial effect on the completion” of genocide. Complicity requires a positive action to have been taken in the promotion of genocide.

1/12 Law for Palestine has submitted letters to 11 #EU Foreign ministers, alerting them that their complicity in Israel’s ongoing #genocide risks state responsibility & individual criminal liability for breaching their obligations under intl. law to prevent and punish genocide 🧵 2/12 These states have seemingly failed to support UNGA res. A/ES-10/L.25 titled “Protection of civilians &upholding legal &humanitarian obligations,” a resolution mandating compliance with intl. law &the prevention of incitement of war crimes, crimes against humanity, & genocide

1/9 #Israel's official call to move over 1.1 million people from North #GazaStrip to the South raises concerns of a broader plan for Palestinian deportation to #Egypt.
#ForcibleTransfer constitutes a #WarCrime
#IL rejects it in all its forms #L4Pthreads 🧵 2/9: Art. 49(1) of 4th #GC states that the individual or mass displacement of populations from occupied territories to another country is prohibited “regardless of their motive.” The prohibition also extends to #ForcibleTransfer within an occupied territory -Art. 85(4)(a) of #API

1/14 Growing incitement of genocidal intent among Israeli leaders towards Palestinians is alarming & paves a grave path. Their actions are proving to uphold their horrific genocidal rhetoric. This thread details signs of #Israel's genocidal intent. #L4PThreads🧵 2/14 #Genocide Conv. is clear: genocide is 'acts aimed at the destruction of.. a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group.' It states that deliberately causing life-threatening conditions constitutes a genocidal act, highlighting the illegality of direct #incitement to it.

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Sum. of Dr.@Susanrosepower’s comments (Head of Research @alhaq_org) on the consequences of ICJ advisory opinion & #state_responsibility, during our webinar:On the Table of the ICJ: The Legality/Illegality of #Israeli_Occupation &the Subsequent Int’l Responsibility
#L4PThreads 2/8
Article 14 of the Draft articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts state that the international #obligations on a state committing a continuing crime arise only for the period during which the act continues.

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#Israel has passed a bill allowing revoking of citizenship/residency targeting its Palestinian citizens & #OPT's Palestinians citing ‘anti-terror.’
L4P's @Hassan_Imran had prev. called it out in @MiddleEastEye’s @Ray_Uddin's article:
#L4PThreads
middleeasteye.net/news/israel-pa… 2/7
In 2008, #Israeli_law was amended to allow the interior minister to revoke citizenship based on loyalty. The first incident was in 2017 when an Israeli court approved revoking the citizenship of a Palestinian citizen of #Israel on the basis of loyalty.

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🔴The highlights of the Palestine's legal scene for this week:
🔻New scholarly journal named Palestine/Israel Review announces its first issue to be published in November 2024 and calls for paper submissions. 2/5
🔻A panel discussion on “Holocaust, #Nakba and German Remembrance Culture” taking place at the Goethe-Institut in Tel Aviv was postponed after sparking criticism from both Israeli & int’l Jewish organizations for comparing the Palestinian Nakba and the Jewish #Holocaust

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🔴أبرز ما جاء في تقرير المشهد الحقوقي لفلسطين هذا الأسبوع:
🔻مجلة علمية جديدة باسم Palestine/Israel Review تعلن عن صدور عددها الأول في نوفمبر 2024 وتدعو الباحثين لتقديم أوراقهم البحثية. ٢/٥
🔻أجّل معهد جوته في تل أبيب فعالية بعنوان “الهولوكوست والنكبة وثقافة الذكرى الألمانية” بعد انتقادات من وزارة الخارجية الإسرائيلية ومنظمات يهودية لمقارنة الفعالية بين النكبة والهولوكوست.

📹Watch| Speech by Israel's delegate to🇺🇳during discussion of draft res. referring situation in 🇵🇸/🇮🇱 to @CIJ_ICJ:"the resolution represented a stab in the heart of hope for progress..countries vote in favor of it vote to eviscerate Israel"
👉Full speech: Here watch Palestine-UN Rep. response to the Israeli speech: How do we [UN states} accept that 🇮🇱 rep. insults the countries vote in favor of int'l law? How is there a problem in referring a request to @CIJ_ICJ & not in the crimes of Israel?
👉Full speech:

تقرير المقررة الخاصة للأمم المتحدة حول #فلسطين:لماذا هو مختلف هذه المرة؟
1/15 ليس مجرد تقرير آخر يوثق الانتهاكات الإسرائيلية،بل تقرير سياسي قانوني يستعرض فهما شاملا لجذور القضية ويؤكد على ضرورة تغيير النهج الدولي للوصول إلى حل ينهي الاحتلال/ #الاستعمار-الاستيطاني كما يصفه التقرير 2/15 وهو يختلف عن سياسة الأمم المتحدة السائدة ل "التهميش القانوني الدولي" الذي ينظر إلى القضية فقط من خلال عدسة انتهاكات القانون الدولي الإنساني وحقوق الإنسان، بينما يتجاهل جوهر المشكلة التي تعيق حرية الشعب الفلسطيني.

UN SR report on🇵🇸:What is different this time?🧵
1/15 It's not just another report documenting violations, but a legal policy report navigating a holistic view on the roots of the cause &emphasizing the need for a paradigm shift puts dismantling occupation/colonialism at its core 2/15 It differs from the typical UN approach of “International Legal Subalternity” that views the cause only through the lens of IHL and HR violations while ignoring the core of the problem.