The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ruled that Israel must “repeal all laws and measures that create or maintain the illegal situation” what settlements meanthe practices of “discrimination” against the Palestinian people and attempts to “modify the demographic composition of any part of the territory” of Palestine.

An illegal practice that Israel has been carrying out since 1967And it is carried out with brutal violence, as shown in the images that accompany these lines, and any of us could identify with the Palestinians who are being evicted from their homes.

It is a common practice in which a group of violent Israelis enter a house and mercilessly beat its residents. They call their soldiers who, when they arrive at the scene, threaten the Palestinian victims, arresting some and injuring others. It is the modus operandi of the Israeli settlers in the West Bank because they have been doing it for years with total impunity and in total connivance with their military. while many Palestinians have died defending their homes.

They are large tracts of land that shortly after become luxury complexesof course, surrounded by fences and with strict security. Between 2022 and 2023, new ones were added 24,300 homes in these Israeli settlementsa record figure since records began, and that was before the conflict had even begun.

The UN has declared this a war crime in a report and that these settlements are illegal under international law. This has been brought back to the table by The Hague, A non-binding decision that will once again fall on deaf ears in a policy that Israel has been implementing since 1967.

In an advisory opinion issued on Friday, the UN’s top court warned Israel that it has the “obligation to provide full compensation for the damage caused” for its “illegal” actions, including “returning land and other immovable property” seized from Palestinian citizens “since the occupation began in 1967.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejects ICJ ruling on Israeli occupation of West Bank: “The Jewish people are not conquerors in their own land“.