The new Israeli authorities accredited harsh new sanctions on the Palestinian Authority (PA) in response to their request from the U.N.’s highest judicial physique to provide its opinion on the Israeli occupation of the West Bank.
The Israeli sanctions towards the Palestinian authorities got here after the U.N. General Assembly voted in favor of Palestine’s request for an professional opinion from the courtroom final week.
The Israeli sanctions will, amongst different measures, freeze Palestinian building tasks in Zone C of the occupied West Bank, a spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mentioned.
Area C was positioned below sole Israeli management as a part of the Oslo Peace Accords within the Nineteen Nineties and accounts for greater than 60% of the full space of the occupied West Bank.
Human rights organizations have reported that Israel solely points Palestinians with constructing permits in Zone C in distinctive circumstances.
Israel can even seize 139 million shekels (about $39 million) in taxes collected by Israel on behalf of the Palestinian Authority and distribute the cash to households of terror victims as an alternative.
In addition, Israel plans to implement additional measures towards organizations that promote what it considers hostile or terrorist actions “under the guise of humanitarian work.”
Last week, following an enchantment by Palestine, the U.N. General Assembly requested the Hague-based World Court to provide an opinion on the authorized penalties of Israel’s 55-year-old occupation of the Palestinian territories.
Israel occupied the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem – areas the Palestinians need for a state – within the 1967 Middle East warfare. It withdrew from Gaza in 2005 however, together with neighboring Egypt, controls the enclave’s borders. The PA has had restricted self-rule within the West Bank below the Nineteen Nineties interim peace offers.
The World Court is the highest U.N. courtroom coping with disputes between states. Its rulings are binding, although it has no energy to implement them.
“These decisions are condemned and rejected both in relation to money and other measures they are planning,” mentioned Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesperson for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
