DOHA, (PIC)
The Hamas Movement welcomed the legal opinion issued by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands.
The Movement said that the ruling affirmed “the illegality of the Zionist occupation and the necessity of putting an end to it, exposed the fascist settlement system, demanded its end, and pointed out the widespread violations of international law committed by the different occupation governments against our people and our Palestinian land.”
“This decision, and the court’s request to the United Nations and the Security Council, to consider measures to put an end to the Zionist occupation, places the international system before the need for immediate action to end the occupation, and to translate the successive decisions issued by the court into serious steps on the ground, especially in light of the ongoing war of genocide against our people in the Gaza Strip, the dangerous settlement expansion in the West Bank, and the frantic Judaization steps in Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque.”
Hamas has called for “immediate” international action following the court’s ruling.
It said it puts “the international system before the imperative of immediate action to end the occupation.”
Earlier Friday, the UN’s top court has said Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories is against international law, in a landmark opinion.
The ICJ said Israel should stop settlement activity in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem and end its illegal occupation of those areas and the Gaza Strip as soon as possible.
