Earlier this week, the PAL Commission presented at the Experts’ Briefing for the Hague Group Emergency Meeting in Bogotá to pursue action and accountability for the Israeli criminal enterprise sustaining the genocide in Gaza.

Presenting to government and state representatives, advocacy groups, legal bodies and civil society, the Commission’s Director of Legal and Diplomatic Affairs outlined how the current Israeli criminal infrastructure not only sustains genocide, but is also a direct threat to the regulatory, legal and institutional sovereignty of states in their own domestic, national, functions and interests. It is not merely external pressure; it is a system of regulatory infiltration.

The Commission’s Director outlined how platform policies, NGO licenses, tax law and banking compliances are systematically manipulated to serve the Israeli military agenda, eroding state legal autonomy from within; subverting domestic law, endangering state institutions and public officials and punishing governments that disagree. She further outlined how this not only operates as a tool of foreign control, but as an invasive architecture designed to neutralise opposition, dismantle national autonomy and conscript sovereign institutions into the machinery of occupation and erasure.

The Commission’s Director proposed a practical framework that will weaken and expose the current global civil-to-military infrastructure – parts of which have already been implemented by some States coordinating with the Commission. The framework identifies and dismantles the transnational infrastructure – civilian, financial, diplomatic and discursive – that underwrites Israeli occupation and genocide, forming a sales-settlement-militia pipeline that underwrite Israeli illegal operations. Having launched part of this framework of dismantlement in January 2024, the Commission had already seen tangible results by March 2024 in its Stolen Land Sales Investigations.

Following the presentation, States at the Hague Group Emergency Meeting have already begun to seek coordination with the Commission for implementing this critical framework. This follows the commitment made by two dozen States at the Hague Group Emergency Meeting to dismantle Israel’s civil-to-military infrastructure that continues to sustain the occupation and genocide in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, including preventing the transfer of weapons.

The Hague Group was formed in January 2025 to bring together countries from the Global South – including Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Indonesia, Iraq, Libya, Malaysia, Namibia, Nicaragua, Oman, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and South Africa – to pressure Israel to end its war on Gaza and the occupation of Palestine.