'Palestine was not a land without a people': ICJ hearing

The Palestinian foreign minister continues that "Palestine was not a land without a people," adding that "there was life on this land, political, cultural, social and religious."

"It had schools, universities, cinemas, families and communities whose lives were impacted by a promise made thousands of miles away over a hundred years ago," says Riyad al-Maliki.

"A breach of sacred trust that relegated the indigenous people of the land to the status of non-Jewish communities," adds Maliki. 

"According (the Palestinian people) only civil and religious rights, denying their existence as a people and their rights as a nation.

"The UN enshrined in its charter the right of all peoples to self-determination and pledges to rid the world of colonialism and apartheid. Yet, for decades Palestinians have been denied this right," he said.