{"id":201495,"date":"2014-07-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=201495"},"modified":"2019-03-12T18:11:08","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:11:08","slug":"auto-insert-201495","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-201495\/","title":{"rendered":"CEIRPP 362nd meeting – Palestinian Rights Committee members urge removal of barrier wall creating situation deemed illegal 10 years ago by ICJ – press release\/statement"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Committee on the Inalienable Rights<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n
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of the Palestinian People<\/p><\/div>\n
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PALESTINIAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE MEMBERS URGE REMOVAL OF BARRIER WALL CREATING<\/u><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n
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SITUATION DEEMED ILLEGAL 10 YEARS AGO BY INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE<\/u><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n
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A decade after the International Court of Justice deemed illegal the situation arising from Israel’s construction of the wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including in and around East Jerusalem, the Palestinian Rights Committee, in a special meeting, reaffirmed the Court’s findings and called on Israel to immediately dismantle its system of walls and fences and to compensate Palestinians that had sustained damages as a result.<\/p><\/div>\n
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In a statement issued today, the Committee, known formally as the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, said “The situation has not improved. Israel continues to flagrantly disrespect the a<\/span>dvisory opinion<\/a>, and the wall remains under construction”.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n
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Israel’s continued disregard of the Court’s 9 July 2004 <\/span>advisory opinion<\/a>, and its systematic and deliberate violations of international law, “undermined any remaining trust between Israelis and Palestinians”, the statement said.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n
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Also according to the statement, already 86 per cent of the wall ran inside the West Bank, not along the “Green Line”, the 1949 Armistice Line demarcating Israel and its Arab neighbours. That had resulted in the confiscation of more Palestinian land and property, displacing thousands of Palestinian civilians, severely fragmenting the Palestinian Territory and isolating Occupied East Jerusalem. Once completed, the 712-kilometre barrier of concrete walls, fences, ditches, razor wire, sand paths and electronic monitoring would span twice the length of the Green Line. <\/p><\/div>\n
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The Committee reaffirmed the Court’s ruling that all States were obliged not to recognize the illegal situation due to the wall’s construction or support its maintenance, and that all State Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention must ensure that Israel complied with international humanitarian law.<\/p><\/div>\n