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The court s outgoing prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, said on Wednesday her office will formally investigate war crimes in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem after the court accepted jurisdiction last month.
Her commitment to a principled, non-partisan, approach could see criminal investigations of Israel and of Palestinian militants, including the Islamist group Hamas, which controls Gaza.
Bensouda has identified the Israeli military s use of lethal and non-lethal force against Palestinians demonstrating at the Gaza border fence after 2018 as one possible focus of the investigation.
One of those killed in the border protests was Raza Al-Najar, a 21-year-old volunteer medic shot by Israeli troops in June 2018 at a protest near Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
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