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PA’s Abbas calls ICJ ruling against Israel a ‘triumph for justice’
Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on February 5, 2024 (Nasser Nasser / POOL / AFP)
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas hails today’s ICJ ruling that Israel’s presence in the territories is illegal.
Abbas in a statement calls the decision “a triumph for justice.”
The PA president “urges the international community to compel Israel, the occupying power, to fully and immediately end its occupation and colonial project without conditions or exceptions.”
He says the “ruling underscores the rejection of Israeli occupation, the recent Israeli Knesset decision (rejecting Palestinian statehood), and US policies supporting Israeli occupation and rejecting the establishment of a Palestinian state.”
