In a press release, the Palestinian Presidency considered that the decision was a victory for justice and demanded that Israel immediately and unconditionally withdraw its settlers and troops from the occupied territories.

Its authorities must also compensate the material and moral losses of our people, the text stressed.

The world must force Israel to end “its colonial project completely and immediately, without restrictions or conditions,” it noted.

The document also pointed out that the ICJ ruling reaffirmed the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination, their land, and an independent State.

The verdict, issued while our people are suffering an aggression and genocide in the Gaza Strip, renews hope for a future free of colonialism, the Presidency affirmed.

The Ministry of Foreign and Expatriate Affairs, in turn, welcomed the Court’s historic legal opinion on the nature of the Israeli occupation.

The Foreign Ministry stressed that the ICJ assessed all facts and evidence presented by Palestine and several countries that joined the case.

“This opinion is now an irrefutable legal fact and has legal implications,” it said.

The only solution under international law is that Israel, the occupying power, ends unconditionally and immediately its illegal occupation of the Palestinian territory, it said.

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