[News] Tel Aviv threatens to ‘dissolve PA’ over UN push to end occupation

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 Tel Aviv threatens to ‘dissolve PA’ over UN push to end occupation

The Palestinian Authority submitted a draft resolution to the UN General
Assembly demanding that Israel withdraw its military from the West Bank and
dismantle Jewish settlements

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SEP 9, 2024 -
https://thecradle.co/articles/tel-aviv-threatens-to-dissolve-pa-over-un-push-to-end-occupation
Egypt's United Nations Ambassador Osama Abdel Khalek address the United
Nations General Assembly on Friday, Oct. 27, 2023 at UN headquarters.
(Photo credit: AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz has threatened to “break and dissolve”
the Palestinian Authority (PA) if it moves forward with non-violent
diplomatic measures at the UN to end Israel’s occupation of Palestine, the*
Times of Israel* reported
<https://www.timesofisrael.com/katz-threatens-to-break-and-dissolve-pa-if-it-pushes-un-resolution-against-israel/>
on 9 September.

Katz made the threat after the PA submitted a draft resolution to the UN
General Assembly demanding that Israel be forced to implement the decisions
of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague.

The General Assembly will vote next week on the draft resolution, which
calls for an Israeli withdrawal from the occupied Palestinian territories
within six months, dismantling the illegal Jewish settlements, and
facilitating the return of Palestinians to their land.

The resolution also calls for imposing sanctions on senior Israeli
officials, blocking weapons sales to Israel if they might be used in
Palestinian areas, and preventing any more foreign embassies from being
established in occupied Jerusalem.

Katz ordered a set of moves to be coordinated with the US and other Israeli
allies to oppose the decision, the Foreign Ministry said.

The foreign minister instructed Israeli diplomats, including Israel’s
Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, to emphasize to US, European, and UN
officials that if the Palestinian proposal passes, Israel will impose
“severe sanctions” against the PA, cease all cooperation with it, and bring
about its “dissolution.”

In contrast, Israeli intelligence and security officials have often warned
<https://www.timesofisrael.com/report-shin-bet-chief-warns-netanyahu-on-dangers-of-pa-collapse-resulting-violence/>
against the collapse of the PA, which they view as helpful in controlling
the Palestinian population on Israel’s behalf and preventing resistance to
occupation.

In July, the ICJ ruled that Israel’s policy of settlement in the West Bank
violated international law and that Israel had effectively annexed large
parts of the West Bank. Israel officially annexed East Jerusalem in the
1980s, in violation of international law.

The ICJ ruling said that all UN member states are obligated not to
recognize changes to the status of the territories and that all states are
obligated not to aid or assist Israel’s rule of the territories and ensure
that any impediment “to the exercise of the Palestinian people of its right
to self-determination is brought to an end.”

There is no mechanism to enforce the ICJ ruling or any General Assembly
resolution against Israel.

However, *The Times of Israel* writes that “there is concern” among the
Israeli leadership that such decisions in international forums “could
snowball and lead to pressure for arms embargoes and the blacklisting of
settlements.”

Israel occupied the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and Syrian Golan Heights during
its attack on Syria, Jordan, and Egypt in 1967, known as the Six-Day War.

UN Resolution 242 called
<https://documents.un.org/doc/resolution/gen/nr0/240/94/pdf/nr024094.pdf>
for the return of territories conquered during the 1967 war based on the
“inadmissibility of the conquest of territory in war.”

Instead, Israel placed these territories under military occupation and
commenced the settlement project, which involved seizing Palestinian land
to build communities for Jewish settlers and annexing the territories
without incorporating the indigenous Palestinian population into the state.
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