Loading ...International court rules Israel obligated to evacuate settlements, pay reparations, end apartheid
The advisory ruling by the World Court confirmed the assessment of human rights groups finding the Israeli occupation equates to a form of apartheid against Palestinians, with member states also being prohibited from rendering it ‘aid or assistance.’
The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the highest court serving the United Nations, ruled Friday that Israel is legally obligated to end its 57-year military occupation of internationally recognized Palestinian territory as rapidly as possible, evacuate hundreds of thousands of Jewish colonizers from settlements, and pay reparations to all Palestinians who have suffered injury or loss of land or property.