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Palestine: International law obliges Israel to end occupation, says rights panel

·October 20, 2024·2 min read

It details the obligations for Israel, third-party States and the UN to bring to an end the unlawful occupation, according to the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel. “Israel’s internationally wrongful acts give rise to State responsibility, not only for...

Occupation ‘eating away’ at Israeli, Palestinian societies: Türk

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·March 4, 2023·3 min read

“I urge decision-makers and people on all sides to give effect to the recommendations of our reports and to step back from the precipice to which increasing extremism and violence have led,” said Volker Türk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), after presenting the Council with his latest...

Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian territory, tantamount to ‘settler-colonialism’: UN expert |

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·October 28, 2022·2 min read

“For over 55 years, the Israeli military occupation has prevented the realisation of the right to self-determination of the Palestinian people, violating each component of that right and wilfully pursuing the ‘de-Palestinianisation’ of the occupied territory,” said Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian...

Occupation, discrimination driving Israel-Palestine conflict, recurring violence |

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·June 7, 2022·3 min read

The finding comes in the first report by the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, established last May by the UN Human Rights Council. The Commission said occupation and discrimination are the key root causes of the recurrent tensions, instability, and...