World lacks will to stop Israel
The global community does not have the will to enforce international laws demanding an end to Israel’s occupation of Palestine, says an international law expert.
“We do not see a clear will from the international community and the United Nations to implement the clear decisions of the United Nations, which include an Israeli withdrawal from the occupied territories, and the return of all the [Palestinian] refugees, both the ones that have been displaced during the Nakba and the Naksa,” Munir Nuseibah, international law expert, from London told Press TV on Sunday.
“[The] international law does give answers. For example, in 2004, we had a very clear decision from the International Court of Justice against the wall that Israel built within the occupied [Palestinian] territory. And this decision, this advisory opinion, said that every country that signed the Geneva Convention has a legal obligation to do everything in its capacity to stop and reverse [the building of] this wall. However, until today, we can see that this has not taken place,” Nuseibah added.
On Sunday, thousands of Syrian and Palestinian protesters flocked to Syria’s Golan Heights on Naksa Day, to mark the 44th anniversary of the beginning of Israel’s 1967 Six-Day War.
Israeli forces opened fire on the pro-Palestinian protesters from Syria who approached the occupied territories, killing at least 23 people, including a woman and a child, and injuring 350 others, according to the Syrian TV.
The events came exactly three weeks after tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon and Syria, marked Nakba (Catastrophe) Day on May 15.
The Nakba Day marked the anniversary of a 1948 event, when Israeli forces displaced some 700,000 Palestinians, forcing them to flee to different neighboring countries.
Israelis wiped nearly 500 Palestinian villages and towns off the map, leaving an estimated total of 4.7 million refugees dreaming of an eventual return to their homeland more than six decades later.
Source: presstv.ir
