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Evening Standard
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William Mata

UN top court rules Israel's occupation of Palestine as 'unlawful'

The United Nations’ top legal power, the International Court of Justice, has ruled that Israel's presence in the Palestinian occupied territories is "unlawful" and called on it to end. 

Justices ruled on Friday that the building and expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem were discriminatory against Palestinians. 

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