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Position Paper – 18 October 2024<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n All States and international organizations, including the Â鶹APP, have obligations under international law to bring to an end Israel\u2019s unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel said in a new legal position paper<\/a><\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>published today.<\/p>\n The paper sets forth the Commission\u2019s views in relation to state responsibility and how the General Assembly and the Security Council can identify and implement the precise modalities and actions required to the occupation to an end, as rapidly as possible.<\/p>\n The Commission found that the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the\u00a0Legal consequences arising from the policies and practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem<\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is authoritative and unambiguous in stating that Israel\u2019s continued presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory is unlawful under international law.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Commission has always stated that the root cause of the protracted conflict and cycles of violence is the occupation,\u201d said Navi Pillay, Chair of the Commission. \u201cThe Commission concluded in its report to the General Assembly in 2022, that the occupation is unlawful under international law. The Commission welcomed the historic advisory opinion from the highest court in the Â鶹APP system.\u201d<\/p>\n The Commission\u2019s paper sets forth the obligations for Israel, third States and the Â鶹APP to bring to an end the unlawful occupation. Israel must immediately put into place a comprehensive plan of action to dismantle settlements and evacuate all settlers from occupied territory. Israel must return land, title and natural resources to the displaced Palestinians, and repeal all restrictive and discriminatory law and policies.<\/p>\n \u201cIsrael\u2019s internationally wrongful acts give rise to State responsibility, not only for Israel, but for all States.\u201d Pillay said. \u201cAll States are obligated not to recognize territorial or sovereignty claims made by Israel over the occupied territories. States must distinguish in their dealings between Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, such as a State must not recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel or place its diplomatic representatives to Israel in Jerusalem. States must not render aid or assistance in maintaining the unlawful occupation. Aid and assistance include financial, military and political aid or support.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt is incumbent on all States to work cooperatively in order bring the unlawful occupation to an end, and to work towards the full realization of the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination,\u201d Pillay said. The Commission also calls on all States to implement the General Assembly resolution passed on 13 September 2024.<\/p>\n Background<\/strong>: The\u00a0UN Human Rights Council<\/a><\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>mandated the Commission on 27 May 2021 to \u201cinvestigate, in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in Israel, all alleged violations of international humanitarian law and all alleged violations and abuses of international human rights law leading up to and since 13 April 2021.\u201d\u00a0Resolution A\/HRC\/RES\/S-30\/1<\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0further requested the commission of inquiry to \u201cinvestigate all underlying root causes of recurrent tensions, instability and protraction of conflict, including systematic discrimination and repression based on national, ethnic, racial or religious identity.\u201d The Commission of Inquiry was mandated to report to the Human Rights Council and the General Assembly annually commencing from June 2022 and September 2022, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Position Paper – 18 October 2024 All States and international organizations, including the Â鶹APP, have obligations under international law to bring to an end Israel\u2019s unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel said in a […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[1329],"document-source":[6815],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1769,1741,6975,6879,1805,1749],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-302477","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-press-release","document-source-commission-of-inquiry-on-the-occupied-palestinian-territory","document-subject-armed-conflict","document-subject-human-rights-and-international-humanitarian-law","document-subject-israels-illegal-occupation","document-subject-israeli-settlements","document-subject-occupation","document-subject-palestine-question","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/302477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/302477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302499,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/302477\/revisions\/302499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=302477"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=302477"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=302477"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=302477"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=302477"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=302477"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=302477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}