A hard-hitting new legal briefing has accused Britain of breaching binding legal duties under the International Court of Justice’s July 2024 advisory opinion, which found that Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory is unlawful and must end “as rapidly as possible”. Published by the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) and the Labour Muslim Network, Priority Measures for UK Policy on Palestine sets out six priority areas in which it says the UK’s foreign and domestic poli
A hard-hitting new legal briefing has accused Britain of breaching binding legal duties under the International Court of Justice’s July 2024 advisory opinion, which found that Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory is unlawful and must end “as rapidly as possible”. Published by the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) and the Labour Muslim Network, Priority Measures for UK Policy on Palestine sets out six priority areas in which it says the UK’s foreign and domestic policies are “not consistently adhering” to the law. The six priority areas are illegal Israeli settlements; the funding and protection of the UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA; the protection of Palestinian access to religious sites, including Al-Aqsa Mosque and Christian holy sites in […]
