Palestinian leaders poised to join #ICC in order to pursue #Israel for #WarCrimesInGaza

The Guardian reports: Palestinian political leaders are poised to join the International Criminal Court (ICC) with the aim of putting Israel in the dock on war crimes charges, officials said today.

“Israel has left us with no other option,” Riad Malki, the Palestinian foreign minister, told reporters after meeting ICC officials in The Hague to discuss the implications of signing the Rome Statute. It would make the Palestinian state a member of the court with the authority to call for an investigation into possible war crimes and crimes against humanity.

The Palestinian Authority has asked Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) to sign the accession document before it is formally presented, and officials say they now expect both organisations to agree. [Continue reading…]

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  1. Joel Keller

    Hopefully, the law of unintended consequences will bite the Palestinians on their collective behinds, as each of the 10,000+ missiles shot into Israel over the past few years represents a “war crime” and/or “crime against humanity.” Let’s see if anyone defends them for these collective crimes.

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