On 19 July 2024, the International Court of Justice issued a historic Advisory Opinion declaring the Israeli occupation and associated regime of systematic discrimination – amounting to racial segregation and/or apartheid – unlawful. Flowing from this illegality, it calls on Israel to end the occupation and associated regime, evacuate the settlements, dismantle the wall, provide full reparation, and allow displaced Palestinians to return. The Court finally stipulated that Member States and the United Nations are obliged not to recognize and support maintaining the above illegality and that the UN should consider the precise modalities and further action required to bring the illegal situation to an end as rapidly as possible.

This is a ground-breaking ruling that confirms what Jordan, Palestine, and many other States, experts, activists, and others have been saying for years, giving tremendous push to the Palestinian quest for freedom and liberation.

ARDD calls on all States to comply in full with the Court ruling and to end complicity in Israel’s illegal occupation, its ever more brutal genocide in Gaza, and the root cause of all this: Israel’s 76-year-old regime of settler-colonialism and apartheid.

For additional information on the ruling, see the note (press here) prepared by the Question of Palestine Program team at the Renaissance Strategic Center. Led by program advisor Dr. Lex Takkenberg, this note includes the most prominent points extracted from the ruling and their consequences.