As the UN’s high courtroom holds its ultimate day of hearings, extra international locations assert Israel’s decades-old, unlawful occupation of Palestine should finish.
Turkey has joined numerous international locations which have condemned Israel’s decades-long occupation of Palestinian territories on the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
Turkey’s Deputy Foreign Minister Ahmet Yildiz was the primary consultant to talk on the final day of the hearings on Monday, capping a weeklong occasion that noticed 52 international locations and a number of other worldwide organisations testify to Israel’s occupation of Palestine.
He mentioned the long-running battle may have been settled by now if worldwide and human rights legal guidelines had been upheld by Israel and its Western allies, and emphasised how the United Nations Security Council has failed to guard the unalienable rights of the Palestinians.
He mentioned the “deepening occupation by Israel of the Palestinian territories” and the failure of its allies to decide to implementing a two-state answer had been the principle underlying points.
Reporting from outdoors the courtroom in The Hague, Al Jazeera’s Bernard Smith mentioned Turkey echoed most of the arguments which have been made by dozens of nations since final week.
“Turkey said Palestinians were subject to practices from the Middle Ages under occupation, it said that Palestinians only need emancipation with dignity,” he mentioned.
“And there was particular focus from the Turks on the Haram al-Sharif as it is called by Muslims, or the Temple Mount as the Jews call it, which is supposed to be administered by the Jordanians in a longstanding principle dating to before the creation of the state of Israel. Turkey accuses the Israelis of frequently abusing the independence of Haram al-Sharif.”
This case is separate from the genocide case by South Africa in opposition to Israel for its ongoing conflict on Gaza, which has killed almost 30,000 Palestinians since October 7, principally ladies and youngsters. The Israeli military has killed about 400 Palestinians within the occupied West Bank in the identical interval.
The Israeli navy continued to shell varied components of the Gaza Strip through the ICJ listening to, killing greater than 90 Palestinians and wounding 164 within the 24 hours resulting in the ultimate listening to.
Tamer Qarmout, assistant professor of public coverage at Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, mentioned Turkey had taken extra drastic measures previously when coping with Israel, together with the severing of diplomatic and financial ties.
“But in this war, we have seen a different stand,” he advised Al Jazeera, including that the Turkish authorities continues to be vital of Israel however doesn’t take comparable positions like those previously.
“I think [this] has to do with Turkey’s internal policies and politics,” he mentioned, citing Turkey’s restoration from a severe financial disaster as a trigger. “They [Turkish officials] don’t want to antagonise other key partners in the West by taking drastic positions.”
‘Racial domination’
The unprecedented scrutiny on the world’s highest courtroom of Israel’s ongoing occupation and the system of apartheid it imposes on Palestinians comes after the UN General Assembly in December 2022 handed a decision calling for an ICJ opinion.
The United States defended Israel on the hearings, which itself had refused to attend, claiming its presence would jeopardise a future settlement with Palestinians.
“Under the established framework, any movement towards Israel’s withdrawal from the West Bank and Gaza requires consideration of Israel’s very real security needs,” Richard Visek, a US State Department authorized adviser, advised the courtroom final week.
Arab nations on Monday reiterated their diverging views from Washington on the problem, with the group of twenty-two international locations telling the courtroom it condemns violations of worldwide legislation arising out of Israel’s “racial domination and apartheid perpetrated against the Palestinian people”.
“Palestinian people have been denied the exercise of their legal right to self-determination through the more than century-long, violent, colonial racist effort to establish a nation-state exclusively for the Jewish people in the land of Mandatory Palestine,” consultant Ralph Wilde mentioned.
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