WHY DIVEST FROM THE ISRAELI OCCUPATION?
The United Nations Security Council, the United Nations General Assembly, and the International Court of Justice (ICJ), have all affirmed that the Israeli settlement enterprise and military occupation of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem, referred to as the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), is in violation of international law.
The Security Council and ICJ have also ruled that Israel’s construction of a wall that encloses parts of the West Bank and further infringes on Palestinian lives and livelihoods is a violation of international law, especially the Fourth Geneva Convention. Israel’s policies also violate the rights of Palestinian refugees, as stated in UNGA 194. At the same time as it builds more settlements and expands the wall, Israel has turned the impoverished and densely-populated Gaza strip into the world’s largest open-air prison and launched repeated military assaults against it. The Israeli offensive against Gaza this past summer killed more than 2,100 Palestinians, the great majority of them civilians and a quarter of them children.
Multinational companies have knowingly and consistently violated international law by providing products or services that are:
The United Nations Security Council, the United Nations General Assembly, and the International Court of Justice (ICJ), have all affirmed that the Israeli settlement enterprise and military occupation of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem, referred to as the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), is in violation of international law.
The Security Council and ICJ have also ruled that Israel’s construction of a wall that encloses parts of the West Bank and further infringes on Palestinian lives and livelihoods is a violation of international law, especially the Fourth Geneva Convention. Israel’s policies also violate the rights of Palestinian refugees, as stated in UNGA 194. At the same time as it builds more settlements and expands the wall, Israel has turned the impoverished and densely-populated Gaza strip into the world’s largest open-air prison and launched repeated military assaults against it. The Israeli offensive against Gaza this past summer killed more than 2,100 Palestinians, the great majority of them civilians and a quarter of them children.
Multinational companies have knowingly and consistently violated international law by providing products or services that are:
- Contributing to the maintenance of the Israeli military occupation of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem;
- Contributing to the maintenance and expansion of Israeli settlements in the OPT;
- Contributing to the maintenance and construction of the Separation Wall;
- Used for violent attacks on Israeli and Palestinian civilians and civilian infrastructures.
