The UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, has slammed Israel for claiming self-defense to justify its military offensive in the occupied West Bank.
“Israel claims that what it is doing in the West Bank is justified under the law of self-defense. This claim has no validity,” Albanese *said* <https://twitter.com/FranceskAlbs/status/1829502904475984156> on X on Friday. Albanese pointed out that “Twenty years ago the *@CIJ_ICJ* <https://twitter.com/CIJ_ICJ> determined that Israel could not invoke self-defense under article 51 of the UN Charter to justify its Wall in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt).” This past July, she stressed, the Court “indicated that Israel’s very presence in the oPT is itself unlawful.” *https://www.palestinechronicle.com/no-validity-un-rapporteur-rejects-israels-claim-to-self-defense-in-west-bank/ <https://www.palestinechronicle.com/no-validity-un-rapporteur-rejects-israels-claim-to-self-defense-in-west-bank/> * -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#31910): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/31910 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/108203568/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
