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ICJ Advisory Opinion on Israeli Security Fence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2017

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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 98 , Issue 2 , April 2004 , pp. 361 - 364
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2004

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References

1 See Report of the Secretary-General Prepared Pursuant to General Assembly Resolution ES-10/13, at 3, UN Doc. A/ES-10/248 (Nov. 24, 2003)Google Scholar.

2 Id. For a map of completed and planned sections of the barrier, see Israel Ministry of Defence, Israel’s Security Fence (Mar. 1, 2004), at <http://www.securityfence.mod.gov.il/Pages/ENG/default.htm>. For an assessment of the potential humanitarian impact of the fence, see United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Occupied Palestinian Territory, Preliminary Analysis by OCHA Reveals That the Planned New Wall Will Have Severe Humanitarian Consequences for More Than 680,000 Palestinians in the West Bank— Well Beyond the Impact of the Current Watt (Dec. 15, 2003)Google Scholar, at <http://www.reliefweb.int/hic-opt/>.

3 See John Ward, Anderson, Israel’s Fence Mixes Security and Politics, Wash. Post, Sept. 23,2003, at Al5 Google Scholar; see also Report of the Secretary-General Prepared Pursuant to General Assembly Resolution ES-10/13, supra note 1, at 3.

4 See, e.g., Slevin, Peter, Israelis Fail to Convince U.S., Wash. Post, Sept. 23, 2003, at A15 Google Scholar; The President’s News Conference, 39 Weekly Comp. Pres. Doc. 1473, 1477 (Oct. 28, 2003)Google Scholar.

5 See Steven, R. Weisman, U.S. Rescinds Part of Loan Guarantees to Israel, N.Y. Times, Nov. 26, 2003, at A12.Google Scholar

6 Guinea, Malaysia, Pakistan, Syrian Arab Republic: Draft Resolution, para. 1, UN Doc. S/2003/980 (Oct 14, 2003).

7 UN Doc. S/PV. 4842, at 2 (Oct. 14,2003). Bulgaria, Cameroon, Germany, and the United Kingdom abstained.

8 Id.

9 See Letter Dated 7 May 2003 from the Secretary-General Addressed to the President of the Security Council, annex, UN Doc. S/2003/529 (May 7, 2003) (containing “A Performance-Based Road Map to a Permanent Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict”).

10 GA Res. ES-10/13, para. 1 (Oct. 27, 2003).

11 GA Res. ES-10/14 (Dec. 12, 2003).

12 UN Doc. A/ES-10/PV.23, at 19 (Dec. 8, 2003).

13 Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Order, paras. 1-3(Int’l Ct. Justice Dec. 19, 2003)Google Scholar. The basic documents, decisions, pleadings, and other materials concerning the International Court of Justice are available at the Court’s Web site, <http://www.icj-cij.org>.

14 Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Order, paras. 1-5 (Int’l Ct. Justice Jan. 30, 2004)Google Scholar.

15 Id., para. 8. Article 17(2) of the ICJ Statute excludes a member of the Court from participation in the decision of any case in which he has previously taken part “as agent, counsel, or advocate for one of the parties, or as a member of a national or international court, or of a commission of enquiry, or in any other capacity.”

16 See Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Order, Diss. Op. Buergenthal, J. (Int’l Ct. Justice Jan. 30, 2004).

17 Written Statement of the United States of America (Jan. 30, 2004), Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Int’l Ct. Justice) Google Scholar.

18 Id., paras. 3.3, 3.5-.6, 3.8, 3.10 (footnotes omitted).

19 Id., paras. 4.6, 4.8.