Researcher David Hughes wrote an article entitled “Of Tactics, Illegal Occupation and the Boundaries of Legal Capability: A Reply to Ardi Imseis” article. The debated article titled “Negotiating the Illegal: On the United Nations and the Illegal Occupation of Palestine, 1967–2020”. Hughes said: “I contemplate whether an occupation’s legal status can or should affect the requirement that an occupying power must withdraw from the territory that it controls”.

Hughes questioned the effectiveness of the approach proposed by Amsis and his claim that it is necessary to declare that an occupation has become illegal to move beyond the tension that exists between the requirements of state responsibility and a political preference for negotiations. In response, Hughes argued that the duty to terminate an occupation is a positive legal duty that exists regardless of an occupation’s legal status and suggested that the negotiation process cannot be completely uncoupled from the withdrawal requirement. To check the article, click here