& nbsp; Egypt submitted an oral argument before the International Court of Justice today, April 28, 2025, in contact with the request of the advisory opinion submitted by the United Nations General Assembly to the court regarding Israel’s obligations as a stand -up force in the occupation in the occupied Palestinian territories. Yasmine Moussa, Legal Adviser to the Office of the Minister of Foreign Affairs. The Israelis as well as the Knesset legislation, as well as the ongoing Israeli measures to undermine the role of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) and drying its funding sources, with the aim of obstructing the right of return for the Palestinian people, which constitutes an essential corner of their right to self -determination under international law and the United Nations Charter. Forced evacuation and frequent displacement under the pretext of the so -called & quot; evacuation orders & quot, which led to the transfer of the Palestinians forcibly to areas that do not have the basic ingredients of living, and obstructing the arrival of the basic supplies and services necessary for life, as part of a systematic policy to create conditions aimed at making Gaza insecure. 2023 to use the policy of starvation and the full blockade of Gaza as a weapon directed against civilians in the Strip, and Israel has accommodated that weapon by closing all crossings to Gaza intentionally and arbitrarily, which prevented the entry of food and water suitable for drinking, fuel, medical supplies and other basic needs. 2023, the majority of them are women and children, while Israel continues to target civilians and the infrastructure necessary for the survival of the Palestinian population. This, and the Egyptian pleading focused on reviewing the legal defenses that prove the existence of obligations to Israel as a member state of the United Nations under the United Nations Charter, as well as the agreement on the privileges and forts of United Nations, as well as Israel’s obligations as an existing power force to ensure and facilitate the provision of supplies and urgent assistance without obstacles, in accordance with international humanitarian law and international law for rights Humans. From the crossing, and what was followed by Israel’s implementation of its military attack on the city of Rafah, which was a haven for more than a million Palestinians, and a major center to provide humanitarian aid to Gaza, which caused severe damage to humanitarian operations and increased the aggravation of the catastrophic humanitarian situation, and with humanitarian agencies forced to withdraw in order to preserve the safety of its employees, the arrival of humanitarian aid stopped from the Rafah crossing, which was the lifeblood of the sector Gaza. Gaza immediately and unconditionally, ensuring the basic supplies of civilians in the Gaza Strip on a large scale and safe UNRWA, as well as the third countries that provide humanitarian aid, abolish the illegal laws related to UNRWA approved by Israel, respect the privileges and immunities granted to UNRWA and other United Nations agencies, and ensure their protection, as well as the court declaring that the Palestinian people’s right to self -determination includes their right to seek their economic, social and cultural development on its land, including the right to receive development assistance for early recovery and restoration Reconstruction, and not displacing or expelling him from his land.
