“For too long, international law has been treated as optional – applied selectively to those perceived as weak, ignored by those acting as the powerful. This double standard has eroded the very foundations of the legal order. That era must end,”

Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories, will say the era of treating international law as optional must end. Photograph: Darko Bandić/AP

 

UN’s Albanese hails 30-nation meeting aimed at ending Israeli occupation of Palestine

The Hague Group aims to agree political, economic and legal actions in ‘existential hour’ for Israel and Palestine 

The UN rapporteur hit with sanctions by the US last week has vowed not to be silenced as she hailed a 30-nation conference aimed at ending Israel’s occupation of Palestine as “the most significant political development in the past 20 months”.

Francesca Albanese will say the two-day gathering in Bogotá, Colombia, starting on Tuesday and including China, Spain and Qatar, comes at “an existential hour” for Israel and the Palestinian people.

The aim of the conference is to set out steps the participating countries can take to implement a UN general assembly motion mandating member states to take measures in support of Israel ending its unlawful occupation of Palestine.

The motion set a deadline of September 2025 to implement a July 2024 international court of justice advisory opinion that Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories was unlawful.

The ICJ said in its advisory opinion that “Israel’s security concerns do not override the principle of the prohibition of the acquisition of territory by force” and called on it to end its occupation “as rapidly as possible”. It said UN member states had an obligation “not to render aid or assistance in maintaining the situation created by Israel’s illegal presence in the occupied Palestinian territory”.... READ MORE  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/15/united-nations-francesca-albanese-colombia-conference-israel-palestine 

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