Countries aiding Israel’s occupation may be ‘complicit’: UN experts
Al Jazeera
Independent UN commission calls on Israel to halt settlement expansion and return occupied land to Palestinians.
Third countries that enable Israel’s “unlawful occupation” of Palestinian territory and assist it despite warnings of war crimes and possible genocide in the Gaza Strip should be considered “complicit”, United Nations experts say.
“Israel’s internationally wrongful acts give rise to state responsibility, not only for Israel, but for all states,” Navi Pillay, the head of the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry, said on Friday.
The commission has published a new legal position paper spelling out specific actions required after a recent advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) declaring Israel’s occupation since 1967 “unlawful”.
It also examines the implications of last month’s UN General Assembly vote demanding the occupation end within a year.
The three-person commission, established by the UN Human Rights Council in May 2021 to investigate alleged international law violations in Israel and the Palestinian territory, pointed first to Israel’s obligations.
