Shusha
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4. All armed action or repressive measures of all kinds directed against dependent peoples shall cease in order to enable them to exercise peacefully and freely their right to complete independence, and the integrity of their national territory shall be respected.Just because it is a joint effort between Israel and Egypt does not mean Gaza is not a prison. The blockade of Palestine's territorial waters removes it from being a border issue.The text is clearly misleading, as Gaza shares a border with Egypt as well as Israel. The security fence (“wall”) separates Israel and Gaza, but can’t reasonably be characterised in a way suggesting it’s completely surrounding the territory. The error is not insignificant, as the words “around Gaza” (intentionally or otherwise) reinforce the oft-repeated narrative falsely suggesting that Gaza is a “an open-air prison”.
(full article online)
UKMW prompts improvement to Indy headline suggesting there’s an Israeli wall around Gaza.
It moves it into an issue of throttling Islamic terrorists.
The United Nations and Decolonization - Declaration
You can not possibly have failed to notice the word "peacefully" in there. I highlighted it for you anyway. Peoples have a right to peaceful independence. They do not have a right to commit war crimes against their neighboring peoples. ALL peoples have a right to peaceful independence.
All peoples. As confirmed by your own link:
1. The subjection of peoples to alien subjugation, domination and exploitation constitutes a denial of fundamental human rights, is contrary to the Charter of the United Nations and is an impediment to the promotion of world peace and co-operation.
2. All peoples have the right to self-determination; by virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.
That includes the Jewish people.
And before you go all "but...territorial integrity" on me -- that term has NEVER been interpreted to mean that one of two competing peoples must get ALL of the territory claimed and the other gets nothing. Territory has always been divided to accommodate both peoples.