Occupied Palestinian Territory
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Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) comprises the two regions of the former British Mandate for Palestine that have been occupied by Israel since the Six-Day War of 1967, namely the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has referred to the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, as "the Occupied Palestinian Territory", and OPT was used as the legal definition by the ICJ in its advisory opinion of July 2004.[1]
Occupied Palestinian Territory was used by the United Nations and other international organisations between October 1999 and December 2012 to refer to areas controlled by the Palestinian National Authority,[2] but from 2012, when Palestine was admitted as one of its non-member observer states, the UN started using exclusively the name State of Palestine.[3]
The European Union (EU) also uses the term OPT[4] but the Israeli government and its supporters use the label "Disputed Territories" instead.[5]
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:A Devastating Indictment of Israel’s War on Gaza | Article | 11 January 2024 | Mike Small Roshdi Sarraj | |
| Document:Biden’s pier for Gaza is a hollow gesture that will change almost nothing | blog post | 8 March 2024 | Jonathan Cook | President Biden needs to look like Gaza’s saviour when Democrats are deciding who they are voting for. He and the Democratic party are betting voters are dumb enough to fall for this charade. Please don’t prove them right. |
| Document:Existence vs Expansion | blog post | 21 July 2024 | Craig Murray | The International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion is extremely lucid and decisive. The ball is now back in the court of the UN General Assembly, which requested the Opinion. The General Assembly now should move to suspend Israel’s membership of the United Nations. That is the next project on which I shall be working. |
| Document:ICJ to decide on emergency measures in Israel-Gaza genocide case this week | Article | 24 January 2024 | Al Jazeera staff | South Africa’s Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor will travel to The Hague to be present at the International Court of Justice as it rules on the Israeli genocide in Gaza. |
| Document:Israel Goes to Court for the Crime of Genocide | Article | 12 January 2024 | Philip Giraldi | The plan by America’s “best friend” and “closest ally” to nuke the world even has a name: the “Samson Option,” recalling how the Biblical strongman Samson brought down the temple where the Philistines were mocking him, killing thousands of them. |
| Document:On Gaza, Sunak's Tories and Starmer's Labour have merged into a single pro-war party | Article | 22 January 2024 | Peter Oborne | If the ICJ rules in South Africa’s favour then Rishi Sunak, as well as US President Joe Biden, will be wide open to the charge that they are aiding and abetting genocide. And so will Labour’s Keir Starmer. |
| Document:Open Letter To The Judges Of The International Criminal Court | Letter | 7 October 2024 | Yanis Varoufakis Brian Eno | |
| Document:South Africa institutes Genocide Convention proceedings against Israel | statement | 29 December 2023 | International Court of Justice | South Africa's 84-page Application instituting Genocide Convention proceedings against Israel |
| Document:South Africa’s Case Was a Display of International Solidarity - We Should Support It | Article | 12 January 2024 | Jeremy Corbyn | At the International Court of Justice, South Africa spoke on behalf of the billions of people who oppose Israel's genocide in Gaza — and put Western governments to shame for their deplorable complicity. |
| Document:The Israeli Terrorist State | blog post | 31 July 2024 | Craig Murray | "For me it is now axiomatic that there is no two state solution and that apartheid Israel must be completely dismantled as an entity. I believe that more and more people around the entire globe believe that now. "And if we have to dismantle our own political and media classes to get there, so be it." |
| Document:Watch the West continue to make a mockery of international law | blog post | 19 July 2024 | Jonathan Cook | The World Court concludes that the Palestinians are owed massive reparations. At a bare minimum, western governments must recognise the state of Palestine and impose sanctions on Israel until it withdraws from the occupied territories. |
| Document:You can’t arm a genocidal state into moderation. So why does the West keep trying? | Article | 4 September 2024 | Jonathan Cook | Western politicians and media are never going to admit that Israel is carrying out a genocide in Gaza. The moment they do, the veil of illusions fostered for decades about Israel - designed to conceal the West’s complicity in Israeli crimes - would be torn away. In committing a genocide, a state crosses a threshold. It cannot be armed into moderation. Nor can it be reasoned into peacemaking. It must be aggressively isolated and sanctioned. |
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References
- ↑ "Illegal Occupation: Framing the Occupied Palestinian Territory"
- ↑ "International Organisation for Standardisation: Inclusion of new country name and code elements"
- ↑ "UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs – Occupied Palestinian Territory"
- ↑ "European Union, Trade in goods with Occupied Palestinian Territory"
- ↑ "Occupied Territories or Disputed Territories?"
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