Article 1. Definition of Torture 71 and thus the legal regime that takes precedence, the Committee argued in its Concluding Observations that the State party ‘maintains control and jurisdiction in in many aspects on the occupied Palestinian territories’.283 The Committee also recalled regarding the argument of lex specialis, that it ‘considers that the application of the Convention’s provisions are without prejudice to the provisions of any other international instrument, pursuant to paragraph 2 of its articles 1 and 16’.284 The Committee also referred to the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on the construction of a wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, according to which international human rights treaties ratified by the State Party, including the Convention, are applicable in the occupied Palestinian territories. Gerrit Zach 283 284   CAT, ‘Concluding Observations: Israel’ (2009) UN Doc CAT/​C/​ISR/​CO/​4, para 11.  ibid. Zach