Introduction

In light of the genocidal war waged by the Israeli occupation against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and all of Palestine, the importance of the legal effort that exposes the crime of genocide committed by the occupation against Palestinian civilians, institutions and the Palestinian land, and seeks to achieve justice and bring Israeli criminals to international courts, is highlighted.

And in light of the legal efforts made by South Africa and Nicaragua to impose a cessation of war and punish criminals, it is important for the circle of legal pressure to expand on the occupying state and the countries that support it politically or militarily, which contribute to prolonging the war and increasing the number of victims.

Objectives

Because legal work is closely related to parliamentary and legislative work, this legal seminar came within the work of the fifth conference of the League of Parliamentarians for al-Quds to achieve the following goals:

1- Shedding light on the brutal genocidal crimes committed by Israel against the Palestinian people in Gaza in particular and in all of Palestine.

2- Emphasizing that these crimes committed by Israel are an official Israeli policy that Zionist leaders and institutions have systematically practiced against the Palestinian people since the occupation of Palestine in 1948.

3- Emphasizing that the Palestinian people’s resistance to the occupation by all means is a legitimate right guaranteed by international laws, and considering descriptions of terrorism as political and illegal descriptions.

4- Emphasizing the justice of the Palestinian issue as an issue of national liberation and highlighting international solidarity with it.

5- Emphasizing the importance of the role that parliamentarians can play in cooperation with their governments to support Palestine legally or push for the issuance of laws that can do justice to the Palestinian people.

Speakers

1- Yılmaz Tunç: Because legal work is closely related to parliamentary and legislative work, this legal seminar came within the work of the fifth conference of the League of Parliamentarians for al-Quds to achieve the following goals:1-

2- Ralph Wilde: Professor of International Law at the University of London and the lawyer appointed by the League of Arab States to represent it before the International Court of Justice in the settlement case filed with the court.

3- Gilles Devers: Professor of international law in France and a lawyer accredited to the International Criminal Court. He led hundreds of lawyers to submit a petition to the Criminal Court about Israel committing the crime of genocide in Gaza.

4- Anis Kassim: A Palestinian lawyer specialized in international law, and a member of the defense team before the International Court of Justice in the apartheid wall case. He worked as a legal advisor to the Palestinian negotiating delegation in Madrid and Washington between the years (1991 - 1993).

5- Georges-Henri Pottier: A Belgian lawyer specialized in international law and human rights and former head of the Francophone section at the International Federation for Human Rights, and a participant in filing complaints before the International Criminal Court in the context of the aggression on Gaza.

6- Yahya Abu Abboud: Head of the Jordanian Bar Association.

7- Tayyab Ali: A British lawyer specialized in international law and human rights, director of the International Center for Justice for Palestine, and head of the international law department at Bindmans Law.

8- Lamis Deek: A Palestinian lawyer specialized in defending human rights

Session moderator: Lawyer Tayyab Ali

Session duration: three hours

Seminar details

Seminar outcomes

It is hoped that the symposium will achieve the following:

• Encouraging countries in solidarity with Palestine to join the genocide case filed with the International Court of Justice against the occupation, by communicating with the parliamentarians present or by communicating directly with their embassies and foreign ministries.
• ⁠Encourages the attending members of parliaments and legal activists to submit complaints directly to the International Criminal Court and pressure it to open a serious investigation into the crimes committed by the occupation in Palestine.
• ⁠Filing a group of complaints against Israeli figures involved in crimes before European courts and in countries whose courts accept the principle of universal jurisdiction.
• Organizing a legal workshop at the conference to train interested representatives and legal activists on the proper legal methods for filing these cases before the competent courts.

Introduction

The importance of the seminar lies within the urgent need to activate the parliamentary frameworks of parliaments, most notably the committees specializing in supporting the Palestinian issue and their role in maintaining the presence of the issue in parliaments and various parliamentary institutions, and contributing to confronting the plans targeting the occupied city of Jerusalem and the Palestinian issue, especially with the exceptional and dangerous circumstances in which the issue is experiencing, and with the emergence of unlimited American and Western support for the Israeli occupation in the war of annihilation it is waging against the Palestinian people, especially in the Gaza Strip.

Objectives

This seminar is a part of the activities of the Fifth Conference of the League of Parliamentarians for al-Quds to achieve the following objectives:

1. Trying to understand the importance and role of the Palestine committees in supporting the Palestinian cause, highlighting it, and maintaining its presence in parliaments, parliamentary institutions, and on the agenda of governments.

2. Coming up with recommendations and practical outcomes about activating the role of committees, coordinating between them and the parties supporting the Palestinian cause, and creating tools to influence decisions and legislation related to the Palestinian cause.

3. Consultation on ways to motivate representatives to carry out their oversight role on the governments’ performance towards the Palestinian issue using various parliamentary tools.

4. Consultation on ways to mobilize representatives against international projects seeking to liquidate the Palestinian cause, violating the status of Jerusalem and the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the war of extermination against the Palestinian people.

5. Discussing ways to effectively participate in developments in the Palestinian issue and ways to protect the Palestinian people, confront the narrative of the occupation, and confront Western support for it in international and relevant institutions.

Speakers

MP Hasan Turan / Member of the Turkish National Assembly

MP Hamza Hamlaoui/ Member of the Algerian National People’s Assembly

MP Mohamed Al Balooshi / Member of the Bahraini Parliament

MP Syed Ibrahim/ Member of the Malaysian Parliament

Representative Yunus Abubakar/ Member of the Nigerian Parliament

MP Firas Al Ajarma/ Member of the Jordanian House of Representatives

Representative Michele Piras/ Member of the Italian Parliament

Session moderator: Mushahid Hussain/Member of the Executive Board of the League of Parliamentarians for Jerusalem

Session duration: An hour and a half