Israel rejects the legitimacy of the ICJ to declare its occupation of Palestine “illegal”

Israel He rejected this Monday that “he does not recognize the legitimacy” of the debate in the International Court of Justice (ICJ)after the Palestinian representative to the UN request the high court to declare “illegal” the Israeli occupation, which has been maintained since 1967 on the Palestinian territories.

“Israel does not recognize the legitimacy of the debate at the International Court of Justice in The Hague over the ‘legality of the occupation’, a measure designed to harm Israel’s right to defend itself against existential threats.”indicates a statement from the Israeli Prime Minister’s office, Benjamin Netanyahu.

“The discussion in Hague It is part of the Palestinian attempt to dictate the results of the political agreement (to establish a Palestinian state) without negotiations. “We will continue to fight against this attempt,” Add.

The Palestinian permanent representative to the UN, Riyad Mansour, urged the ICJ on Monday “to confirm that the Israeli presence in the occupied Palestinian territories is illegal.”

“I repeat, it is illegal. That the presence of its occupation forces and its settlers is illegal. And that their occupation must come to an immediate, total and unconditional end,” he added.

Mansour intervened in this Monday’s hearing before the court, which is studying this week the legal consequences derived from Israel’s policies and practices in the Palestinian territories, to issue an advisory opinion requested by the United Nations General Assembly in 2022.

The chancellery of Israel also issued a statement that called Mansour’s statements “false accusations” that seek to “create a fundamentally distorted reality,” and alleged that his request for a withdrawal of Israeli troops and settlers from the West Bank, “without conditions and without negotiations, amounts to to another massacre of Israeli citizens.”

“The attempt by Palestinian leaders to transform the international system into a political tool to attack Israel damages both global confidence in the international legal system and the chances of reaching a resolution to the conflict”he added.

Israel went to war with Hamas – which de facto controls the Gaza Strip– after the terrorist group carried out an attack on October 7 that left 1,200 dead and 250 injured.

Since then, the Israeli Army has responded with a powerful offensive that has left more than 29,000 dead, most of them women and children, and almost two million displaced people surviving in the midst of an unprecedented humanitarian crisis.

This situation, combined with the increasing wave of violence in the occupied West Bank, has once again placed the Palestinian cause among the priorities of the international agenda, which seeks a long-term resolution of the conflict.

Besides the UNnumerous countries, including the United States – the main partner and supplier of weapons of Israel– They pressure the Jewish State to agree to a ceasefire with Hamas that allows the release of the hostages, a relief to the situation of the Gazans, and that it agrees to the creation of a Palestinian State as the basis of a peace agreement long term.

The Israeli Government issued a statement yesterday in which it assures that it will not give in to “international dictates.”

The Israeli Foreign Ministry estimated this Monday that the ICJ ““should determine that the Palestinians must return to existing legal frameworks to resolve the conflict through direct negotiations.”

But the Israeli Government, the most right-wing in history, not only does not advocate a peace agreement that includes a Palestinian State, but also promotes a policy of colonialist expansion.

Israel took control of the West Bank in the 1967 Six-Day War, and since then has maintained a regime of military occupation and colonization over the territory.