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Responding to ‘false’ ICJ ruling, PM says Jewish people can’t be occupiers in their own land
Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conference at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, July 13, 2024. (Dudu Bachar/POOL)
Responding to the ICJ ruling that found Israeli presence in the territories to be illegal, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says: “The Jewish people are not occupiers in their own land — not in our eternal capital Jerusalem, not in the land of our ancestors in Judea and Samaria.”
“No false decision in The Hague will distort this historical truth, just as the legality of Israeli settlement in all the territories of our homeland cannot be contested,” Netanyahu adds.
