The international community’s leniency toward Israel has encouraged it to continue its violations and act as an entity above the law

The Legal Department of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine called for reviving UN General Assembly Resolution (10/ 24), which was adopted on this day last year (September 18, 2024). The resolution explicitly called on Israel to end its “unlawful presence in the occupied Palestinian territory” within one year, based on the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice dated July 19 of the same year, and to refrain from obstructing the Palestinian people from exercising their right to self-determination—particularly their right to establish an independent and sovereign state on the entire occupied Palestinian territory.
The Legal Department of the Democratic Front stated that Israel has treated the resolution and its implications with arrogance, recklessness, and aggression toward the Palestinian people and their land first, and toward the international organization and its institutions second. This constitutes a clear violation of the obligations Israel pledged to respect, whether related to its admission to UN membership or to its commitment to the Charter—foremost among them the prohibition of the use of force, cooperation with the United Nations and its agencies, and other obligations Israel has violated. In particular, since the adoption of the General Assembly resolution, Israel has engaged in the following:
– Failure to withdraw from the occupied Palestinian territories (the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem). Instead, it has emptied the resolution of its substance, particularly regarding settlement expansion across the West Bank, including approval of new plans such as (E1), which would divide the West Bank and alter the demographic character of Jerusalem.
– In July 2025, the Israeli Knesset approved a draft law calling for the imposition of sovereignty over the West Bank and the Jordan Valley, in addition to dozens of military and settlement measures, curtailing the powers of the Palestinian Authority, and effectively canceling the geographic divisions imposed by the Oslo Accords.
– Israel launched the widest military operations across several Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank, accompanied by massive destruction and the displacement of tens of thousands of Palestinians—in the largest displacement in decades.
– Tightening restrictions on the work of international institutions, particularly UNRWA, which has long faced a comprehensive Israeli campaign, in addition to threats against UN officials and refusal to renew residence permits for some of them.
– Issuance of a wide range of administrative orders by Israeli ministries, the army, and institutions in the West Bank, along with complex restrictions on Palestinians’ freedom of movement between cities, camps, and villages. This was accompanied by hundreds of measures aimed directly at imposing a fait accompli policy, especially house demolitions and bans on construction—measures designed to prevent the establishment of an independent and sovereign Palestinian state on its land.
The Legal Department of the Democratic Front considered that the Palestinian people had hoped Resolution (10/24) would not suffer the same fate as dozens of historical resolutions issued by UN institutions, which remain unimplemented due to Israel’s hostility toward the UN and its charters, openly supported by the United States. The U.S. has come to embody aggression against international legitimacy.
The Department noted that the UN has not done what is necessary to compel Israel to comply with the resolution, particularly regarding “urging states of the world to fulfill their obligations under international law” and convening an international conference during the 79th session of the General Assembly to implement UN resolutions on the question of Palestine. In addition, the Department called for convening a conference of the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention on the protection of civilians in time of war, to adopt measures ensuring the Convention’s implementation in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, in line with the resolution’s provisions.
The Legal Department of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine concluded its statement by affirming that the UN’s approach, and that of its agencies, toward Israel and its policies—not only against the Palestinian people but also against the UN itself—has emboldened Israel to continue its violations, particularly the ongoing killing and destruction in the Gaza Strip. Israel acts with impunity, relying on sufficient U.S. protection and believing it can do anything without facing accountability or punishment from international judicial and political bodies, which still rely on complaints and condemnations without deterrent measures.
Therefore, we call on the international community in all its components to preserve what remains of its credibility, to defend itself and its resolutions, and to prosecute Israeli criminals for their daily crimes, documented and defined as war crimes, genocide, and ethnic cleansing.