Western Sahara resembled an occupied Kuwait, situated near Europe and the Mediterranean sea, in Africa and at the heart of the Maghreb.

Shingal is occupied by a group that has no business being there.

That people desired and deserved the decolonization of their Territory.

The city was clearly an occupied city, with a very heavy police and military presence.

Most of the world and the United Nations considers Gaza and the West Bank occupied by Israel.

He went to Paris after the liberation of France and to Cologne once it had been occupied by the Allies.

Any measure taken by Israel in any occupied Arab territory is null and void, as recognized by international norms.

Anyway, I passed through the sit in, and I found people from our side occupying and guarding the bridge (I won't say revolutionaries and thugs , I will say from our side and from their side ).

It is time for Europe to stop acting like an occupied continent and start displaying its own political will.

Israel was also using the wall to change the character of East Jerusalem, which it occupied illegally.

In this context, the Government of Lebanon organized municipal elections in mid 2004 throughout the south and in its formerly occupied villages.

Israel's disengagement had not changed Gaza's legal status as an occupied territory nor had it modified the Agency's mandate to provide aid and assistance to the refugee population.

As previously noted, ICCPR applies to extraterritorial acts of States parties within occupied territory.

Construction of the wall on Palestinian territory could only be regarded as de facto annexation, and the annexation of occupied territories was proscribed by the United Nations Charter and the Fourth Geneva Convention.

The collective also used the caricature of Colombian Beto Barreto to bring attention to the economic and cultural influences that many people consider to be the cause of the occupation over the countries of Latin America by foreign forces.

A small country like Israel, lacking a serious demographic foundation or favorable geopolitical conditions, could never perpetuate its presence in occupied territories, Talmon argued.

At the same time, Israel has continued to resort to all kinds of deception and misleading ploys in order to distance itself from those terms of reference and to ignore the international will in order to both gain land and win peace. That has prevented the establishment of the desired comprehensive and just peace.

The Committee reminded Israel, the occupying Power, that its settlement activities, the annexation of East Jerusalem, any actions to strengthen its hold on the city and the construction of the wall on occupied land were contrary to international law.

In the light of those circumstances, Israel remained an occupying Power, subject to the obligations of international humanitarian law, including the obligation to promote the welfare of the people of Gaza and not to impede access to medical care and other resources.

Disengagement is an important step forward and withdrawal from occupied territory, albeit partial and on terms largely set by the occupier, is a positive, precedent setting step and one that the entire international community cannot but support.

Excessive restrictions from Israel in the Palestinian territories of Gaza and the West Bank further aggravate the situation in what most of the world and the United Nations considers territory occupied by Israel. This is Israel's third military operation in Gaza in six years.

Excessive restrictions from Israel in the Palestinian territories of Gaza and the West Bank is why most of the world and the United Nations considers this territory occupied by Israel. This is Israel's third military operation in Gaza in 6 years.

At the time of the transfer of authority in June of 2004, many pundits predicted that an elected National Assembly would ignore an interim constitution drafted by an unelected Governing Council and promulgated by an occupying authority.

Excessive restrictions from Israel in the Palestinian territories of Gaza and the West Bank aggravate conditions in areas that most of the world and the United Nations considers occupied by Israel.

The withdrawal of Jewish settlers from Gaza did not change the legal status of Gaza as an occupied territory, and the disengagement should be used by Israel as an opportunity to revive the peace process rather than to exploit it as a way of completing de facto annexation of huge areas of the West Bank.

A weak interim national government or a United Nations or foreign occupying administration should not attempt to implement policies such as privatizing national resources when doing so might incite political resistance.

Israel, as founding father David Ben Gurion warned, can be a Jewish state, it can be a democratic state, and it can be a state occupying the whole of historical Israel but it cannot be all three.

The government's argument (first made by Moshe Dayan in a speech to the UN in 1977) is that neither the West Bank nor Gaza were the territory of a High Contracting Power at the time they were occupied by Israel and that therefore the Convention does not apply.

But how can this be achieved when the Agreements and the rule of law continue to be flouted when our land remains occupied by force and our people dislocated from their hometowns and villages? Indeed, how can all potential arrangements of mutual benefit and normalization kick off when sovereign territories are not respected and demarcated?

At least until recently, the international community assumed this to be the likely reading of Article 49 because, in drafting the crimes subject to prosecution in the International Criminal Court, the concept of transfer was expanded to include the Occupying Power's direct and indirect transfer of its population into occupied territories.

The Court, also in its 9 July 2004 Advisory Opinion, after examining the travaux préparatoires of the ICCPR and the decisions and observations of the Human Rights Committee, rejected the argument that the Covenant was not applicable outside a State's territorial borders and, more particularly, in occupied territory.