Sources: Palestinian self-determination and statehood

10 sources. A working link shows that a source is available; it is not proof that the source supports a claim — that is checked by editorial evidence review.

• News analysis or explainer · Independent publication

  A Guide to the Gaza Peace Deal (Council on Foreign Relations) link

  Policy-institute analysis of the 20-point peace plan proposed by the Trump administration in September 2025, the ceasefire that took effect 10 October 2025 as its first phase, and the plan's stated components (hostage/prisoner exchange, phased Israeli withdrawal, an international "Board of Peace" and stabilization force, and a Hamas-free Palestinian governing authority).

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• NGO or research institute report · Advocacy organisation perspective

  Human Rights Watch, Gaza: World Court Orders Israel to Prevent Genocide (Human Rights Watch) link

  Advocacy-organisation reporting, presented as one characterization rather than neutral fact, on the ICJ's 26 January 2024 provisional measures order in South Africa v. Israel (Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide). The order found South Africa's claim that Palestinians in Gaza have a right to protection from genocide "plausible" for the purposes of provisional measures, and ordered Israel to take measures to prevent genocidal acts and enable humanitarian aid, without ordering a ceasefire; this is a provisional measures order in ongoing contentious proceedings, not a final merits judgment on whether genocide has occurred, which the Court has not yet issued as of this bundle's preparation.

  Cited on: Palestinian self-determination and statehood, History of Palestinian self-determination and statehood, Palestinian self-determination and statehood: current international status · Source record

• Court decision · Court or tribunal

  International Court of Justice, Summary of the ICJ Advisory Opinion of 19 July 2024: Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem (ReliefWeb (reproducing the ICJ's own summary)) link

  Consulted via a reproduction of the ICJ's own summary rather than the full original opinion text. The Court found Israel's continued presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory unlawful, requiring Israel to end it as rapidly as possible, cease new settlement activity, evacuate settlers, and make reparation; and found other states and international organizations obliged not to recognize the situation as legal or render aid in maintaining it. This is an advisory opinion, not a binding judgment in contentious proceedings between named parties.

  Cited on: Palestinian self-determination and statehood, History of Palestinian self-determination and statehood, Palestinian self-determination and statehood: current international status · Source record

• Court decision · Court or tribunal

  International Criminal Court, Situation in the State of Palestine: ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I rejects the State of Israel's challenges to jurisdiction and issues warrants of arrest for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant (International Criminal Court) link

  Primary text, the ICC's own official statement, read in full. On 21 November 2024, ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I unanimously issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on charges including the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare and crimes against humanity of murder, persecution and other inhumane acts, and separately for Hamas military commander Mohammed Deif on charges including crimes against humanity of murder and torture and war crimes including hostage-taking; these are arrest warrants based on the Chamber's finding of reasonable grounds, not convictions, and neither Netanyahu, Gallant nor Deif has been tried.

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• Reference work · Independent publication

  January 2025 Gaza war ceasefire (Wikipedia) link

  General-reference encyclopedia article, consulted via citation, on the ceasefire and hostage/prisoner-release agreement announced 15 January 2025 and taking effect 19 January 2025, its first-phase terms, and its collapse when Israel resumed strikes on 18 March 2025.

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• Reference work · Independent publication

  Palestine Liberation Organization (Wikipedia) link

  General-reference encyclopedia article, consulted via citation, on the PLO's founding at the first Arab League summit (January 1964) and its formal launch in Jerusalem on 2 June 1964 following the first Palestinian National Council meeting.

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• Government publication · Intergovernmental organisation

  United Nations, About the Nakba (United Nations (Question of Palestine)) link

  The UN's own page on the 1948 displacement, used for the commonly cited approximate figure of 700,000 Palestinians displaced, itself drawn from UN and scholarly estimates ranging from approximately 520,000 to 1,000,000, with general consensus the true figure exceeded 600,000 and likely 700,000.

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• Intergovernmental document · Intergovernmental organisation

  United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly Resolution 181 (II): Future Government of Palestine (United Nations) link

  Primary text, retrieved and read in relevant part (a very long document including detailed boundary and constitutional annexes, not read in full). Adopted 29 November 1947, 33 in favour, 13 against, 10 abstaining, recommending the partition of Mandatory Palestine into independent Arab and Jewish states with Jerusalem as a corpus separatum under international administration.

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• Intergovernmental document · Intergovernmental organisation

  United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly Resolution 67/19: Status of Palestine in the United Nations (United Nations) link

  Primary text, retrieved and read in full. Adopted 29 November 2012 (138 in favour, 9 against, 41 abstaining, per secondary reporting), according Palestine non-member observer state status in the UN; its extensive recitals independently confirm the dates of numerous earlier milestones (PLO observer status in 1974, the 1988 declaration, the 1993 Israel-PLO mutual recognition, the 2004 ICJ advisory opinion) cited throughout this bundle.

  Cited on: Palestinian self-determination and statehood, History of Palestinian self-determination and statehood, Palestinian self-determination and statehood: current international status · Source record

• News report · Independent publication

  US declares phase two of Gaza ceasefire, but what did phase one deliver? (Al Jazeera) link

  Journalistic reporting from January 2026 on the declared start of "phase two" of the 20-point plan and reported obstacles to its implementation, including Hamas's refusal to disarm; this is the most recent development on the ceasefire process found in the sources consulted for this bundle, and later developments through September 2026 were not confirmed.

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