celebration of republican and democratic lawmakers is visiting taiwan to voice the support as tensions grow with china. the delegation. so to assure type pay that washington would stand by it in the face of the question, from beijing pylons president sighing when it said that you hope to see more exchanges of delegations with us in the future. but this visit is expect as a goal criticism from china. the delegation will stay in taiwan for 3 days before then, continuing a tour of the region. today we've come as democrats and republicans to show our bipartisan support for this partnership, which thanks to your leadership, i think is stronger and more rock solid than ever. and today, freedom is under attack from a storage area in aggression. and we need to be more vigilant than ever if we want to pass on this gift to freedom. we've been given to the next generation. in libya and fighters from a number of groups have agreed to leave the capital tripoli of to 10 people were

killed in violence that over the past few days, the internationally recognized government announced that they will be replaced by a regular police force that is on groups receive public funding, but they still operate independently from the government. fighting between rival groups killed, 55 people in august. the groups formed because of a security vacuum. after a long time router moment, good off, he was deposed in 2011 people near the eastern city of government and democratic republic of congo, offering as and 23 fighters continued to advance. violence is intensifying prompting. the un security council, the sanction some of the groups leaders as an emergency meeting on tuesday. catherine sawyer reports now from grandma. this is not the 1st time deborah lola has hard to see from her home. she lived in a village that was taken over by empty 3 fives in november. then she went to the town of psychic, in the east and cumberland providence of north cable,

where she thought she was safe. my husband was killed a week ago doing violence between government forces and the flight to in the area a bomb the home. so now leave him a rough nearby come with the displaced. she says there's no one to protect them here that we just pull up the party. i went to the forest to look for food for my children. a few days ago, i met the bandits who took my supplies and they reached me. nearly everyone from saki. this solitary as a company that was already over crowded. 1.5000000. i've been displaced since this latest round of conflict 2 years ago. a week ago this. com was not one more people are coming from south kit as they are building. this is a state let's take you straight to the hague. now where level it's impossible to the netherlands. i will stop the east that is currently addressing the

international court of justice, those hearings on the legal consequences of israel's occupation to process the entire truth. that's this, and this is a subject of the greatest importance of my country and for indeed the entire to the special community, the record number of requests to intervene before you is name court is the serious proof of this hardly set out in writing of the views of living on the different political aspects of the questions posed and in order to comply with brevity instructions, i will restrict myself to 3 points which have gained an importance, given the seriousness of the events which have taken place since october on purpose to me in touch with these 3 points are one, the propriety of the corpse intervention to peremptory nature of the norms of international law breached by israel. specifically, the prohibition of these a force and the right to self determination. and finally,

the legal consequences arising from these violations. now looking at the propriety of the quotes and suspension, distinguished members of the court, mister preston, we are but a few months away from the historic 20th anniversary of your opinion. regarding the building of a more of. ready or in, okay, probably gonna send you a text right now. said the states had suggested during those advisory proceedings, those. but in due to say, the court shouldn't give an opinion. because the intervention by the court might block only going to go sessions during the policies might even render more difficult reason impossible, the necessary political accommodation. that's a roadmap to be for that. well, here we are 20 years later down the road without a negotiated solution. no negotiations told, in fact, we do have

a federal service of tests and a massive destruction of civilian infrastructure to us the quote to not into the notes and an advisory opinion. because there's a bilateral negotiation process that needs to be protected. some sort of political solution needs to be preserved is a perverse argument which faces politics and the new off one against the other. well, whereas in all societies, including international society, these are 2 story elected the related complementary elements. the law is the framework which prevents political political slippage, be a public or private level. it is the know which guarantees a minimum of justice and relations. man, i'm sure media shown go and try to for clarity. describe this pleading before you. i'm going to create to now the political see it represents the classes subject to

a tease between society is different. protecting this, and it's all right process which produces an unmitigated balance of power. the legal c a represents the transposition of back crashes, subject to reduced by reference to a pre established standard. the legal no underneath the policy or authority of free guarantees of objectivity comparison with the reference, no binding. partial partial. the policy provides the prism of objectivity to which the factual situation can be rich and a citation. this objectivity distinguish levels, the court is this objectivity to which we has come to seek. yes, we can, from your step, allow me now to move onto the 2nd point which relates to the printer,

the nature of rooms breached by, as well. as we've already mentioned in our written comments, the concept of print, pre knowns, has become clear thanks to the hard work carried out by the i l. c. as of 2016. talking of the work worker, the commission, let me respond to comments made by certain states who would the draft us it cools and conclusions of that commission should not be considered as established concepts. this observation, distinguish most of the cool minimizes the role that this body place on behalf of the un general assembly in the development occurred invocation of international law . let me invite the court to examine this comment of mine regarding that in light of our school for ca, to use statute so many but to print renewals. the commission had a stablished, a known exhaustive list of 83, and pre, nunes, when living and submissive,

it's written the statement. it can see that the israel had breached at least 4 of these for the a since then. and given the horrors to which palestinians he goes are all subject. israel is accused of breaching a 5th no of the 8. and it's not the least the prohibition to genocide. and this is historical r n a at its fattest. as i said at the beginning, i will limit myself to 2 groups he knows mentioned in a written statement, prohibition of these a force in the right to self determination. the justification of this choice seems obvious to me. the breach of these 2 knows why israel is the into rags or directs cause of the violations of the other. no, it's mentioned in our written statements be the norms of international humanitarian law, human rights, or pro edition of apartheid. well,

israel to cease its occupation of palestinian territory, treating east jerusalem. i think set the right of the pedestal, people to self determination, all the other foundations would disappear. let me add in this regard, that in the written statements of many states, they refer to and even insisted upon the loans character of the history of the occupation to characterize it as an illegal annexation of palestinian territories. now this is a valid and correct argument, mister preston. but it should be taken as forming part of aggravating circumstances of the crime and not the crime itself. because the crime is one of aggression emptied since 1944. the use of force of the international law is strictly regulated

. since 1967, israel has been convincing a crime of aggression illegally occupying territories before annexing them. in other times, the occupation of territory is resulting from an illegal use of force is itself illegal. however, the loss, so there we go. that's the 1st approach. renewal for elated by israel. now i moved to the prohibition is it, is it force as the prohibition of the use of force is one of the in print, pre norms where the stablish and these could be sets out. and that's cool too powerful of the un, charles, which stipulates like quite old members, shall refrain in the international relations from the threats or use of force because the territorial integrity or political independence of any states who in any other manner inconsistent with the purposes of the united nations

in 1974, the general assembly adopted in resolution 3314, a definition of aggression which enumerates known exhaustively a number of ways force may be used in legally according to the next to recitation. so you see one for aggression is i quote, any ministry occupation, however temporary, any annexation by the use of force of the territory of another state old part there off the blockade of pause or because of a state. so is rails occupation of protestant territories is located? the goal is to strip all of this. so i so the question, this has been to find the nighttime begin by the un security council, which has ceaselessly demoted since 1967. that israel puts an end to talk your

patient the general assembly for its policy is more explicit in its condemnation of this read the occupation of palestinian thirties resubmit. take that, for example, the admissibility of the acquisition of land by force and therefore the is a courtesy of the next ation of any part of the occupied, palestinian to treat encouraging east juries them which constitutes a breach of international law. the court, serious thoughts has always asserted the lawfulness of the use of force and acquisition of surgery. that by including this advisory opinion on the will where the court also recruitment, the custom recurrence of this prohibition. though some may question the application of the loom prohibiting useful as on the basis of incident into state. no,

but that would imply that the ip c on not part of the stage well to the distinguish was the quote you can respond. that led to not, indeed more than a 140 of them to stay. so the un recognize the state of palestine and east jerusalem is capital. the state of palestine is a member of a number of international organizations. eunice, go a p c, w a y c league of arab states pca at out of palestine is also an up 7 member of the un. who's sick? for general. mr. gutierrez took that less than a month ago that the raja dependent stand in people to build their own free independent state must be recognized by o. n a refusal to accept the 2 state solution by any policy must be fairly rejected. so it's a, it's really would be an expedient moment for the court to give its opinion on this

point. in any event, mister preston distinguished members of the court, the prohibition of the use of force is not limited to international law through relations between states. any use inconsistent with the principles and purposes of the you and johnson. the of israel continues its occupation and its policies which are clearly i'm mixing palestinian territories by encourage settlements, confiscation of land destruction, of public buildings, private buildings in order to surrender his presence, an irreversible fit to complete. and this, despite all the successive resolutions of the security council, starting with resolution to for, to the full go a level and requests the court to consider once again, israel is preaching the fundamental principle of the on the roof of this,

of the use of force. and is carrillo a the candidacy of the annexation of territories by force. moving now to the right to, to, to self determination been and can city is the right of the pressing people's self determination is irrefutable and there are no more eloquent woods than those and put by your court to us. the 3 of us who i quote you, the court observes that the existence of a processing young people, is no longer an issue. and those rights include the right to self determination and of the quotation. the right to self determination is the prime cri, know of international law enshrined in the number of tax in creating the you and charles and which establishes this right as one of the foundations of friendly relations between nations. that foundation to vote and international law has many facets, and israel has violated all of them in

its advisory opinion, the code assembly and the legal effects of the separation of the tigris. i'll surely go for a malicious and 1964 and look to the nature and the contents of the right to self determination. and you were told that the right to self determination is a custom reroute. and the resolution of the general assembly 1514, at the couch, return to this resolution adopted in 1960 was one of the 1st techs to define the contents and scope of the right to self determination. namely, that self determination of peoples implies that they can freely determine that political status and pursue the economic and social development. the resolution also mentions the oh action or oppressive, vicious root cause directed against dependent people show seats in order to enable

them to exercise, be free and free. the, the right to complete independence and the integrity of the national territory should be respected. it also clearly indicates that any attempts aimed at the partial total destruction of the national unity and the territorial integrity of the country is incompatible with the purposes and principles of the un charter. moreover, also cool one shed by the icy c p a and i, c e. s. c o, a sets as well, the right to be boost to self determination. and reverse is the main constituent elements of this, right? as i pointed out earlier, lebanon considers the israel is preaching all the constituent elements of the right of the palestinian people, the self determination which one political makes the independence to permanence.

solvency is wilts and natural resources and 3 territories and tennessee. israel's pre verification over the decades despite all the agreements they can created and the appeal. so the international community to recognize the independence of the palestinian state is a ongoing violation the 1st element, the rights to self determination is rails policy of convict guys. seeing agricultural lab experiencing voice admin where the sources of o, p t. c, is a continuing violation of the 2nd element which constitutes the right to self determination, namely, the permanent sovereignty of peoples of their natural resources. the 3rd constituent element of the right to self determination. territory integrity was re cooled by the court when you take said that the right to self determination of the people concerned is defined by reference to the entirety of

a notice of governing territory. as stated in the aforementioned powers of 6 of the nation resolution $1514.00, the court considers the peoples of non self governing taxes are entitled to exercise their rights of self determination relation to that territory as a whole. the integrity of which must be respected by this man administering power. but it's really important. it's policy of colorless ation and construction of infrastructure linking. the sacraments knows away palestinian territories including 2 is this system metric and continuing infringement of the integrity of the progress to new people's territory is documented by a number of reports the international inquiries. so mister president, we arrive the 3rd point, the legal consequences of israel's fine nations. the present import shows the

israel continues to breach prim, free norms of international norms which create the subject ations. the court already noted in its advisory opinion, back in 2004, where you take that, that i must say, it's a national obligation speech ways. read what the old days of vacation such obligations by the very nature, consent whole states. and given the importance of the rights in issue, all states may be considered as having an interest that these rights be protected. the nature of breached obligations entails a specific responsibility if israel, but also responsibility 1st states. indeed, the systematic and continuing current to of the policies and actions of as ro made through an aggravated bridge which entails 3 types of obligations. the state securities,

the article 41 of the draft or schools of straight state responsibility recommended by the un general assembly in 2001. i'm going to look at those how they apply to israel and how they project the states. and so legal consequences, visetti as well. as i mentioned, the idea is right, is convincing. serious violations of international public international law. according to the definition of ethical 41 of the draft or schools on state responsibility, for instance, actually reflects as these violations all but continuous and systematic. israel is held to seize these or norful assets to offer assurances of known repetition. the coolness article says he dropped off school. so state responsibility concretely israel, in this case, has to respect the principle of the prohibition of the use of force. and as corona read the admissibility of the next session of territories,

it must dismantle the sacraments and occupied palestinian territories and withdrew that from the court has already set to its judgment on the legal consequences of the building of a war in pete seeds that israel must thus risk to choose the lan, steve orchard, the oldest grandson or the property ceased from any physical or legal pass. israel is also held to cease over relations of dependence during the people's rights of self determination to put an end to it. so if you patient a pc and to recognize the state of israel, morales is a, will remain in the legal situation just so long as it does not apply the resolutions of the security council, which deal with the different aspects of its occupation of parts. and 3rd trees, and to distinguish most of the course, you already say it in 2004. i quote you,

when the security council adults, the decision under 25 article 25. and the quote is for the charter, it is full member states to comply with that decision. the security of those members of the security council who voted against it. and those members of the you and who are members of the council to hold otherwise would be to deprived his principal good of its essential functions and power, some of the shots and of quotation, giving the full going. we could say just things of the cool, this is where the occupation of palestinian surgery is law for. it's a legal base and it's a and it's comes out as a consequence. history is applies to inc, conditioning, and immediately put an end to this legal situation which entails its international responsibility. any must also furnish reparation. now looking at a 3rd states,

given the news breaks by israel proxy known as these breaches of it all states, all account of the i'm nice carrots dropped onto cruise on state responsibility for internationally room for stipulates. and this article for c one that states should cope right to bring it and 3 lawful means. a serious breach within the meaning of oscar. 40 to those states shall recognize as low for a situation created by as soon as breach within the many vault group. 40 no render aid or assistance to assistance, inmate signing that situation. the court had already confirmed this. these elements which full to states in case of breaches of a couple of days of vacations when you said in the legal consequences of the will

and touch your full i quite you is different than the current trend, impulsive. so the rights and obligations folks, the courses of the view, their own state. so obviously nobody goshen doesn't recognize the legal situation. they are also under no obligation, not surrender aid or assistance in maintaining the situation. it is also for all states while respecting the united nations child to an international law to see to it that any impediment to the exercise by the palestinian people of its right to self determination is brought to an act and difficult rotation. a lot of the full good you can say the consequences of is really breeches of the state are as follows. first, states have to co operate or law for means to make sure that is ro withdrawals. from peachy,

stops it's policy of expansion of settlements and dismantles, extant sacraments, and recognizes the right to the person. you need people to self determination. secondly, states must not recognize the fates i completely situation. israel is created in p t above or regarding the change of status, an demographic situation of the city of taurus. so these regular patient who published dentistry is illegal and has to stop unconditionally and then meet at the consequently 3rd states and internationally, organization must support without delay or efforts aimed at putting an immediate and conditional end to this occupation and to abstain from oh, action or admission which might contribute to this legal situation being maintained

are speaking about international organization and given the court is cooled opponents to own. so the question is addressed by the general assembly of the united nations. the organization has a particular responsibility the organization of the united nations, and specifically the general assembly and security council must take all the necessary measures to ensure the implementation of the relevant resolutions without today and examine additional measures necessary to put an end to oval, remove old obstacles to the realization in the way of the palestinian people to his right to self determination put an end to the person who owns occupation colonization alex ation about his the entire tree by israel into major. but measures aim to a change in the democratic composition. the cartridge of the holy city of jerusalem,

distinguished members of the court living and request the court to find that you have jurisdiction to respond to the request for advisory opinion contained in 77 to 47. to do this in the light of our written and oral comments, ladies and gentlemen, members of the court, late both jump on the 2nd one said, if you want peace, form justice, defend life. if you want life, embrace the truth as the highest judicial authority in order globalized world. lebanon urges you to help in giving justice to the but a senior and people. so we can have peace in them at the least. thank you. i see it as it gets so the signing the delegation of lebanon for the statement by spacing integration, libya to make sure you're watching all just said,

are we being bringing you coverage of the 4th day of hearings of the international court of justice in the hague. on the legal consequences of israel's occupation of palestinian territory is more than 50 states and at least 3 international organizations has been addressing judges of the un is the top court. the latest one has been outdoor se, so he's on boss of the 11 ends and box it up to the netherlands times. during his remarks, steve was pointing out that since 1967, according to 11 on israel had been quote, committing a crime of aggression. he was outlining the reasons why lebanon believe that the court should make a ruling on this case. i should point out that this case was brought to the court by the united nations general assembly, back in october, the 2022. and his focus only on the issue of the legal ramifications of all of israel's occupation of the palestinian territories. it is not focusing on

israel's current war, on garza, he was also laying out at 11 in his case for stopping palestinians right to self determination supporting palestinians right wish to self determination. you'll want to acknowledge and say that we're going to have a lot more on this in the next coming hours. what mean people, there is no safe place for, you know, it's out of 1500 g m t, that's about 5 pm in gaza on the ground. and israel's war it shows no sign of easing and goes after about 4 and a half months. as ministry has been time targeting both ends of the strip, guys, us health ministration says nearly a 100 palestinians are being killed in the past. 24 hours alone and lockwood begins our coverage. this is what has left of a 3 story building in bethlehem leveled by his regular air strikes in the northern gauze. much of the north of this trip resembles a waste land.