UN votes to ask ICJ opinion on Israel's occupation of Palestine
Turkish demonstrators protest outside the Israeli embassy in Ankara on May 12, 2021 over fighting in the Middle East. UN decolonisation committee adopted a draft Palestinian resolution requesting an advisory opinion from ICJ on Israel's prolonged occupation. PHOTO | ADEM ALTAN | AFP
The United Nations' decolonisation committee adopted a draft Palestinian resolution requesting an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice on Israel's prolonged occupation.
The resolution approved at UN headquarters in New York asks that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) "urgently" weigh in on Israel's "prolonged occupation, settlement and annexation of the Palestinian territory", which it said were violating the Palestinians' right to self-determination.
