Date: 3 October 2024
Time: 12h00 – 13.30h
Venue: ACTCJ and hybrid via Zoom
Content: The Advisory Opinion (AO) delivered by the ICJ in July 2024 on the Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, has important implications for third states. The court found that Israel’s policies and practices of prolonged occupation and settlement activities violate the prohibition of use force to acquire territory; the rights of the Palestinian people to self-determination as well as certain obligations under International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law. This seminar will give substance to third state obligations deriving from the AO on Israel´s Military Occupation focusing on the obligation to cooperate (para. 275), the obligation not to recognize as legal the situation arising from the unlawful presence of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), the obligation not to render aid or assistance in maintaining the situation created by Israel´s illegal presence in the OPT and the obligation to ensure compliance by Israel with international humanitarian law (IHL) as embodied in the Fourth Geneva Convention (para 279). It will also discuss current developments on national jurisdiction on arms exports to Israel and activities by the UN-General Assembly.
Official Announcement
by the University of the Western Cape and the African Centre for Transnational Criminal Justice