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Saudi Ambassador urges ICJ to rule on illegality of Israeli occupation

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  • 20 Feb 2024 16:14
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The Saudi ambassador to the Netherlands warns about the Court withholding from looking into the case as this would mean that the system protecting countries will "lose all credibility".

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  • Judges arrive at the United Nations' highest court to open historic hearings in The Hague, Netherlands, on Monday, Feb. 19, 2024.(AP)
    Judges arrive at the United Nations' highest court to open historic hearings in The Hague, Netherlands, on Monday, February 19, 2024. (AP)

The Saudi Ambassador to the Netherlands, Ziad bin Maashi Al Atiyah, confirmed today that "Israel" has no intent of negotiating with Palestinians, expressing deep frustration over Israeli officials' statements regarding the ethnic cleansing and deliberate displacement of Palestinians. 

In a speech in front of the International Court of Justice in The Hague, the ambassador declared that the opinion of all countries part of the Court is very clear, and it is that occupation is "an illegal act", stressing that all Israeli actions in Palestine "cannot be defended." 

He also warned about the Court withholding from looking into this case, as this would mean that the system protecting countries will "lose all credibility", urging the ICJ to issue a ruling labeling the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories as illegal. 

Al Atiyah further denounced "Israel's" ongoing settlement policies, despite the Court and UN Security Council resolutions emphasizing that the occupation's determination to make al-Quds its own "capital" contradicts the right of Palestinians "to self-determination and establishment of an independent state."

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"We as South Africans sense, see, hear, and feel to our core the inhumane discriminatory policies and practices of the Israeli regime as an even more extreme form of the apartheid that was institutionalized against black people in my country," said South Africa's ambassador to the Netherlands, Vusimuzi Madonsela, at the top court. 

Madonsela added that the Israeli apartheid, being a crime itself, is simultaneously and fundamentally settler colonialism that South Africa felt obligated "to call out and end."

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