Germany Opposes Request for ICJ Advisory Opinion on Israel’s Policies and Practices in the Occupied Palestinian Territory But Also Rejects Israel’s Reaction
Published 26 February Author: Stefan Talmon
On 27 May 2021, the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) convened a special session on the grave human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem. At the special session, the HRC decided by a recorded vote of twenty-four to nine (including Germany), with fourteen abstentions, to urgently establish an ongoing independent, international Commission of Inquiry ‘to investigate in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in Israel all alleged violations of international humanitarian law and all alleged violations and abuses of international human rights law’. (more…)