Israel's International Legal Responsibility for Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory In accordance with the provisions of international law

Abstract

The West Bank, Gaza Strip, and the city of Jerusalem are occupied territories occupied by Israel following hostilities in the 1967 war. Israel was a State party to the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, which refused to apply it to the occupied territories since the common article I of the four Geneva Conventions showed respect for and universal adherence to the principles contained therein. However, Israel has not complied with this but has committed serious violations of the rights of Palestinian citizens, criminalized under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. The research aims to hold Israel internationally responsible for its illegal actions in the occupied Palestinian territories for violating the provisions of international law and resolutions of international legitimacy. The importance of the search for international criminal and civil accountability of Israel for its human rights violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories is important, as Palestine's accession to the International Criminal Court comes as an important step in terms of ending the impunity of Israeli war criminals in addition to prosecuting them wherever they are regardless of their nationality and the place where the crime was committed in accordance with universal jurisdiction. The problem of the research revolves around: How long will Israel remain without international accountability for its violations of the rights of citizens in the Occupied Palestinian Territory? The researcher followed the descriptive and analytical approach and reached a set of conclusions and recommendations, the most prominent of which are: holding Israel internationally responsible for its internationally wrongful actions in the occupied Palestinian territories represented by the violation of international obligations. Among the most prominent recommendations are the implementation of the recommendations of Amnesty International's report regarding the call of the International Criminal Court to consider the crime of apartheid as part of its investigations into the Palestinian situation before it and that all States exercise universal jurisdiction to bring the perpetrators of apartheid crimes to justice.