ICC to probe Palestine situation after war crimes claims The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court at The Hague, Fatou Bensouda, has announced she has opened a preliminary investigation into the situation in Palestine after the Palestinian government lodged claims of war crimes against Israel. The ICC made the announcement on its website on Friday weeks after the Palestinian Authority requested the ICC to investigate war crimes it said were carried out by Israel during the Israeli Defense Forces Operation Protective Edge launched in July, in which more than 2,200 Gazans were killed. Bensoudas decision came after the Palestinian government acceded to the Rome Statute on Jan. 2, and the court accepted its jurisdiction over alleged crimes committed in occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, since June 13, 2014. The decision also comes a day after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in a miserable struggle to cover up the crimes he committed during the Israeli air-and-land offensives on the Gaza Strip. #Palestine #ICC4Israel #BoycottIDFSupporters #BDS #JSIL #SaveHumanity
Posted on: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 17:09:09 +0000
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