The International Court of Justice has ruled that Israel's settlements in Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, are illegal. The Fourth Geneva Convention prohibits an occupying power from transferring its population to the area it occupies.
Others who have said that
Israel's occupation of Palestine is illegal include:
Laws Violated: Israel has violated
28 resolutions of the United Nations Security Council (which are legally binding on member-nations U.N. Charter, Article 25 (1945)
- United Nations Special Rapporteur: Michael Lynk said in 2017 that the Israeli occupation was illegal
- Legal Adviser of the Department of State of the United States: In 1978, the Legal Adviser reached the same conclusion
Israel has also violated 28 resolutions of the United Nations Security Council.
Israel has occupied Jerusalem since 1967. Israel administers most of the West Bank, but 42% of it is under autonomous rule by the Palestinian Authority. Hamas controls the Gaza Strip.
About half of Gaza's population of 2.3 million people are children. Since October 7,
Israeli attacks have killed at least 5,500 children, according to Palestinian officials. That is one Palestinian child killed every 10 minutes, or about one out of every 200 children in the Gaza Strip.
There is no palestine and there never has been any palestine.
CMV: Palestine doesn't exist and has never existed.
This is literally a region people occupied that had no control , sovereignty or anything over it under ottoman rule that was eventually lost after the British defeated them.The british ruled the region until 1947 where the arabs attacked the new founding Israel.
There was jews also under ottoman rule though a small percentage, however they aren't consider Palestinians even though some were referred to as Palestinian jews.The usage of the label Palestinians today usually denotes arabs in the west bank and Gaza even though there's technically jewish Palestinians, Palestinians in Jordan, syria , Lebanon and almost 2 million Palestinians living in israel. There is no distinct people nor has there ever been a sovereign state called Palestine. There has only been territories ceded to arabs that don't control their air , can't build a military , limited on resources provided to them by Israel etc.
According to even Arabs themselves
"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct 'Palestinian people' to oppose Zionism. "For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa. While as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan." - (PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein, in a 1977 interview with the Dutch newspaper Trouw.)
“There is no such country as Palestine. ‘Palestine’ is a term the Zionists invented. There is no Palestine in the Bible. Our country was for centuries part of Syria. ‘Palestine’ is alien to us. It is the Zionists who introduced it”. (General Secretary of the Arab Higher Committee Awni Abd al-Hadi testifying to the British Peel Commission, 1937)
“There is no such thing as Palestine in history, absolutely not”. (Professor Philip Hitti, Arab historian, 1946)
“It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but Southern Syria”. (Ahmed Shuqeiri, later the chairman of the PLO, to the UN Security Council, 1956)
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