US President Donald Trump said he wanted to resettle Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Egypt and Jordan, demolishing the rest of the buildings to make the path to the Rowera -style development project and keep the occupied territory under US ownership.
Forcing people to leave their territory and handle the area is prohibited by long -standing agreements. Take a look at the usefulness of Trump’s plans under international law below.
To control the area
“The United States will occupy the Gaza Strip and we will work with it … I see a long -term ownership position,” Trump said.
The Gaza Strip has been recognized by the United Nations and its highest court, the International Court of Justice as part of the Palestinian territories under Israeli military occupation.
International law prohibits the occupation of the area by force, which is praised as a process of aggression. The UN Charter says: “All members will refrain from using their international relations against any state’s territorial integrity or political freedom.”
“Finally, President Trump’s proposal is akin to rejecting the basic principles of international law, which has been at least since the end of World War II and the adoption of a UN Charter.” Trinity College, Dublin.
If the United States claims the Gaza Strip, “it would be equivalent to illegal affiliation of the region. The baker said, nor did Israel have any right to surge the Palestinian territory for the United States or anyone else.
Johnina Dill, co -director of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict and expert on international humanitarian law, said: “There are no situations in which it is permissible to occupy the area by force. The population there is legally meaningless, even if it was true. “
Under the UN Charter, the responsibility of identifying and responding to aggression operations comes to the Security Council, where the United States is a permanent, veto operating member.
The aggression is also one of the crimes against which can be tried before the International Criminal Court. The United States and Israel are not members of the ICC, but the court has called for jurisdiction over Palestinian territories, including the actions taken by countries.
To move the Palestinians out
“Forcibly resettling Gaza’s Palestinians will prove to be a crime against deportation or forcible transition against humanity,” Dil said.
Trump has said that Gaza’s Palestinians would like to leave because it has become dangerous. But there is no indication that 2.3 million residents want to go.
The fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 is forbidden or exiled in the occupied area.
According to the founding document of the International Criminal Court, Rome’s law, the term “forced” is not limited to physical strength, but it may also include the threat of power or repression, such as violence, severe, fear of detention. For reason, psychological repression or misuse of force against such person or individuals or any other person, or by taking advantage of a forced environment.
It is also likely that the Palestinians will be removed from Gaza to other widespread crimes, Dil said.
“The level of such a move, the level of oppression and the level of power means that it will meet the threshold of massive and organized attacks against the urban population.”
Prevent gazes from returning
Trump has said that after the departure of Gaza residents, they do not imagine their return.
Preventing them from doing so would also be a violation of international legal principles, under which the displaced population maintains the right to return to the lands they have escaped.
The halal withdrawal by an occupied power, “cannot include sending people to a third country and this may not be an excuse to ethnic cleanliness or the population indefinitely or on a regular basis,” said Baker.
UN Secretary -General Antonio Guterres said Al Arabia TV That taking the population out of Gaza will “create a high risk that makes you impossible to the Palestinian state forever.”
