Israel ignored a World Court docket opinion in 2004 when it discovered that Israel’s separation wall within the West Financial institution violated worldwide regulation and must be dismantled. As an alternative, it has been prolonged.
The present hearings might enhance political strain over Israel’s struggle in Gaza, which has killed about 29,000 Palestinians, in keeping with Gaza well being officers, since Hamas attacked Israel on Oct 7.
Israel captured the West Financial institution, Gaza and East Jerusalem – areas of historic Palestine that the Palestinians need for a state – within the 1967 battle. It withdrew from Gaza in 2005, however, together with neighbouring Egypt, nonetheless controls its borders.
Israeli leaders have lengthy disputed that the territories are formally occupied on the idea that they have been captured from Jordan and Egypt throughout the 1967 struggle reasonably than from a sovereign Palestine.
