Palestinian minister accuses Israel of ‘colonialism and apartheid’ at hearing

Riyad al-Maliki tells international court of justice that Israel has subjected Palestinians to decades of discrimination and apartheid

The Palestinian foreign minister, Riyad al-Maliki, has accused Israel of colonialism and apartheid" at a world court hearing on the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands since 1967.

For over a century, the inalienable right of the Palestinian people to self determination has been denied and violated," Maliki told a bench of judges at the international court of justice (ICJ), the UN's highest court, in The Hague. Palestine was not a land without people. It was not, as Israeli leaders have described it, a wasteland. There was life on this land."