UN General Assembly
2025

Hamas must answer for its crimes. Hamas can have no role in the future governance in Palestine. But no crime, however heinous, can justify genocide. We also need to recognise the crimes being perpetrated in the West Bank. The scale and pace of appropriation of Palestinian land by illegal Israeli settlers. The open backing this receives from the Israeli government. The harassment, imprisonment and abuse of the Palestinian population. The withholding of tax revenues from the Palestinian Authority. It must not be allowed to continue. In its advisory opinion published in July 2024, the ICJ was clear that all states are under an obligation not to recognise as legal the situation arising from the unlawful presence of the State of Israel in the occupied Palestinian Territory and not to render aid or assistance in maintaining the Palestinian Territory. The world knows what drives this illegal activity is a determination to render the possibility of a two-state solution impossible. It must not succeed.