ICJ ruling has legal implications for all states: UN commission
An independent UN Commission of Inquiry (COI) has welcomed the recent findings of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that Israel’s occupation of Palestine is unlawful.
“The Court was clear and unambiguous, and the advisory opinion entails international legal obligations not only for Israel, but for the UN and all states,” said Navi Pillay, the chair of the commission.
“The maintenance and promotion of the international rules-based order will depend on compliance with this advisory opinion,” Pillay added.
The @UN's Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, welcomed the ICJ's Advisory Opinion stating that the Israeli occupation is illegal under international law. Learn more: ➡️https://t.co/CbDieaKofn pic.twitter.com/uTZNYPiLPd
— United Nations Human Rights Council | 📍#HRC57 (@UN_HRC) July 22, 2024
Clashes break out as Israel continues to raid Tulkarem
We reported earlier that Israeli forces began a raid of the occupied West Bank city and that one young Palestinian man was wounded after being shot in the chest by soldiers.
Fighting between the soldiers and local Palestinian fighters has broken out, local media reports, and a power outage in the city has persisted since the beginning of the raid.
There are also reports that Israeli military bulldozers have begun vandalising infrastructure and private property in the city, and that that Palestinian fighters have set off at least one homemade explosive device targeting Israeli forces.
Israeli forces shoot Palestinian man in Tulkarem camp
The Israeli military has shot and seriously injured a 30-year-old Palestinian man in the Tulkarem refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, the Wafa news agency reports.
He was shot in his thigh, hand and abdomen as Israeli forces stormed Tulkarem in the early hours of this morning, according to Wafa, citing a Palestine Red Crescent Society source.
The man, who has been transferred to the Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital in Tulkarem, is described as being in moderate to serious condition.
Israeli settlers storm Muslim shrines in occupied West Bank
The Wafa news agency reports that dozens of settlers entered Muslim holy places in the West Bank town of Kifl Haris, north of Salfit.
Witnesses told Wafa that the setters entered the shrines under the protection of Israeli soldiers, and performed religious rituals inside.
Provocative acts against the Arab Muslim population of the West Bank by Jewish Israeli settlers are common, and are even undertaken by high-level members of the Israeli government.
Last week, far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir entered Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, sparking anger not only among Palestinians but across the Muslim world.
