What did we learn from the latest ICJ Israel hearings?

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In December 2022, the UN General Assembly asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to examine the legal implications of Israel's decades-long occupation of Palestinian territories. It could not have known that, by the time the court got around to considering the matter, a full-scale war would be raging in the Middle East. While the hearings, which concluded yesterday, were formally about what the General Assembly described as Israel's violation of the Palestinian people's right to self-determination, they have taken on increased significance, and new urgency, in the context of the current hostilities. They have also put increased political pressure...