Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government have criticized the UN court decision on illegal settlements, calling it "fundamentally wrong."

The Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories are deemed illegal by the United Nation's highest court, and they must be removed promptly.

"Nawaf Salam, the ICJ President, stated on Friday that Israel is obligated to end its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory as quickly as possible, emphasizing that its continued presence is illegal."

The court's opinion on Israel's policies and practices, as well as the legal status of settlements, was reported by the BBC.

The Gaza Strip's final stronghold, Rafah, where Hamas operates, was targeted by Israel's military offensive, which the court in May ordered to be immediately halted.

Netanyahu strongly rejected the court's conclusion that Jewish people are occupiers in their own land, including in Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria, their historic homeland.

"No reasonable person in The Hague can dispute this historical fact or the legal entitlement of Israelis to reside in their own communities in our ancestral land."

The Israeli Foreign Ministry issued a detailed statement through its spokesperson Oren Marmorstein, who posted on social media platform X that "Israel rejects the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."

Marmorstein wrote that the Court's opinion is fundamentally incorrect, as it blends politics and law. The opinion injects the politics of the U.N. corridors in New York into the courtrooms of the ICJ in The Hague.

The opinion is disconnected from the reality of the Middle East: Despite Hamas, Iran, and other terrorist groups attacking Israel from seven fronts with the goal of destroying it, and following the greatest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, the opinion disregards the atrocities committed on October 7 and Israel's security obligation to safeguard its land and people.

Marmostein emphasized that the opinion is one-sided and ignores the historical rights of the State of Israel and the Jewish people in the Land of Israel.

"He emphasized that the detachment from the present, including the reality on the ground and the agreements between the parties, is dangerous for the future as it distances the parties from the only possible solution, which is direct negotiations."

According to Anne Bayefsky, director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust and president at Human Rights Voices, the court's decision "effectively nullifies the Oslo Accords and U.N. Security Council resolutions."

Bayefsky stated that the legal perversion from the U.N. Court was impossible to overstate. The court's president, a Lebanese politician whose name was on the ballot for prime minister of Lebanon in the last two elections, read out the decision. Lebanon does not recognize Israel's right to exist. The court made the slanderous claim that Israel is guilty of the crime against humanity of apartheid, without needing to find any specific facts in violation of international law. The apartheid conclusion was reached in just four mini-paragraphs.

"The U.N. and its kangaroo court claim to know what's best, despite being controlled by a vicious antisemitic majority, electing the judges, and choosing the poison, in this case, a legal farce, with the ultimate goal of devastating and destroying the Jewish state."

The International Criminal Court in the Netherlands has already issued legal charges against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, as well as leaders of Hamas, in the form of arrest warrants.

By the time of publication, the State Department had not responded to a Planet Chronicle Digital request for comment.