It was after a July 19, 2024, scathing advisory opinion issued by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) which found Israel’s continued occupation of the Palestinian territories (OPT) and East Jerusalem to be “unlawful,” that the UN General Assembly, on Sept. 18, 2024, adopted Resolution A/RES/ES-10-24 to hold this June 2-4, 2025 conference, to implement the extensive findings of Israel’s illegal actions in the OPT in order to establish the two-state solution with a Palestinian state.
As EIR.News reported at the time, the July 2024 ICJ opinion directed, inter alia, Israel to “bring an end to its unlawful presence” in the OPT, to “cease immediately all new settlement activities, and evacuate all settlers from” the territories. Further, it called on all Geneva Convention signer states to abide by these findings by ending any support they give to Israel’s occupation. Also, due to humanitarian law obligations, Israel was ordered to protect and provide “natural resources,” as well as to “ensure adequate supply of foodstuffs … including water.” As Netanyahu’s onslaught of Gaza and other OPT so blatantly violated these humanitarian norms, bringing about a horrific genocide, the ICJ’s opinion directed that Israel be held accountable.
Already the heavily Zionist-funded NGO, UN Watch, has issued a release questioning the legitimacy of the UNGA’s June conference, claiming it to be a violation of the Oslo Accords. UN Watch’s real vexation, however, is that the conference is mandated to establish means to implement the ICJ 2024 opinion. To its chagrin, “Palestinian representative to the UN Riyad Mansour said he planned to work with member states” to ensure that the conference acts upon the ICJ ruling which ordered the occupation to be “terminated.”
