International Law and Palestinian Rights

It's also the case of the obligation to rescind all measures

aimed at modifying the demographic composition of occupied

territory, including Jerusalem and the status of the holy places.

And in the same spirit, the prohibition to establish

diplomatic missions in Jerusalem.

The same applies to the obligation to

dismantle settlements in the OPT,

or the obligation to ensure the return of Palestinians

expelled from Israel and from OPT and their

descendants. And to restitute properties

confiscated, be they property, both real and

personal property, to their Palestinian owners.

And to pay them, the, the owners, inter alia, appropriate

compensation. And further, the obligation to search for,

prosecute, and punish the authors of war crimes,

crimes

against humanity, including apartheid or genocide, or other

egregious violations of human rights.

May I be allowed to refer you, members of the court, to

the table you can find at,

uh, tab six one of your folders, which summarizes

on the basis of the replies both of the State of Palestine and

a number of other participants in the proceedings, those

legal consequences on which you are called to rule.

Mr. President, the secondary obligations, if you will, that

I've enumerated thus far,

are the consequence of Israel's practices and

policies pursued in persistent and

egregious violation

of the obligations of peremptory norms of general

international law,

and in first place, of its illegal occupation, its denial of

Palestinian people's right to self-determination, which

is the source of all these

evils.

Were Israel to effectively and swiftly acquit itself of these

obligations, Israel would be partially

reestablishing the situation which existed before the wrongful act

was committed.

Without that, of course, adequately repairing the

immense harm caused to the people of Palestine

since the f- 1948 Nakba.

To the extent that this harm cannot be repaired by

restitution, Israel must discharge two

other obligations consistent with the principles

codified in articles thirty-four, thirty-six, and thirty-seven of articles

two oh-- two thousand and one. Israel must

compensate the victims of its acts

and give satisfaction in reparation of the damage caused by its

internationally wrongful acts in the form of recognition of

its breaches, expressions of regret, formal excuses,

or by any other suitable means.

I won't say more about compensation, except to

recall that reparation must be entire,

and that-