International Law
No territorial acquisition resulting from the threat or use of force shall be recognized as legal.
— Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Co-operation among States, General Assembly Resolution 2625 (XXV), 24 October 1970
[The United Nations Security Council] calls upon Israel urgently to place its nuclear facilities under the safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency.— United Nations Security Council Resolution 487, 19 June 1981
Expresses concern about the Israeli nuclear capabilities, and calls upon Israel to accede to the NPT [Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty] and place all its nuclear facilities under comprehensive IAEA safeguards— International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) General Conference Resolution (53/24) 18 September 2009
The Mission concludes that what occurred in just over three weeks at the end of 2008 and the beginning of 2009 was a deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish, humiliate and terrorize a civilian population, radically diminish its local economic capacity both to work and to provide for itself, and to force upon it an ever increasing sense of dependency and vulnerability.— Justice Richard Goldstone, United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, 29/09/2009
