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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: The ICJ called Israel’s 57-year military rule of Palestinian land ‘illegal’. What happens next?
Description: On July 19, the International Court of Justice in The Hague demanded Israel leave the disputed territories of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, after occupying them since 1967. The UN’s high court also instructed Israel to repay Palestinian residents an untold sum for taking natural resources, segregating the Palestinians, forcing Palestinian families to flee their homes due to settler violence, transferring Israeli Jews into the area illegally and unlawfully turning what was once a legal postwar military occupation into a de-facto civilian annexation full of settlements.
The ruling was the first time the UN’s highest court has ruled on t...