ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the wall which constitutes an effective way of restricting access rights to natural resources, international law appears as a perfectible tool to guarantee those same rights. In its advisory opinion referring to the wall in Palestine, the International Court of Justice did not limit itself to a study of Israeli's obligations in accordance with the international law of human rights nor with international humanitarian law. The chapter describes that individual rights linked to the natural resources are recognized on an almost universal level either because of their customary nature or because of massive adherence of States to the conventions which proclaim them. It explores the common recognition of the ineffectiveness of international law to demonstrate that the current situation is the result of the lack of political will on the part of the international community, since legal means exist to put these rights into application.
