The Israeli supreme court has annulled a law retroactively legalising unauthorised settlements. Is it enough to deter the ICC from looking into the issue?
Israel’s Supreme Court has struck down a 2017 law, which retroactively legalised Israeli settlements built on private Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank.
Such illegal outposts take the form of isolated homes and hamlets, to extensions of existing larger settlements. The ruling does not affect settlements built ‘legally’ according to Israeli law with approval from the Israeli occupation authorities. Under international law the settlement of Israeli citizens on land that is considered occupied Palestianian territory is illegal.
More than 200 major Israeli settlements exist in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem with a totalThough illegal under international law, Israel has provided these settlements with access to utilities and infrastructure, as well as unhindered road connections to Israel proper.
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