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The Biden administration’s opposition to an investigation by the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor into alleged crimes in the Palestinian territories is being met with scorn and praise.
The US is being criticised for ignoring the plight of Palestinians and lauded for defending Israel.
The court’s departing chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, this week announced the opening of a full war crimes investigation into the activities of Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
The investigation will cover events beginning in 2014.
“The decision to open an investigation followed a painstaking preliminary examination undertaken by my office that lasted close to five years,” Ms Bensouda said.
America steps back into the ring with the Palestinians
U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden (R) shakes hands with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas upon Biden s arrival in the West Bank city of Ramallah March 9, 2016. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman
January witnessed the resumption of diplomatic contacts between the United States and the Palestinian Authority following a three-year hiatus. After the Trump administration afforded official recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in December 2017, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas stopped talking to the White House, which he said had effectively “withdrawn from… sponsoring the peace process.” Hady Amr, the newly installed Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Israeli-Palestinian Affairs, is back working the phones to senior Palestinian officials.
UPDATE - Russia Welcomes US Readiness to Return to Participation in Mideast Quartet s Work -Moscow Tue 16th February 2021 | 07:50 AM
MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 16th February, 2021) Russia welcomes the US readiness to resume full participation in the work of the middle East Quartet, both sides have stated their intention to cooperate constructively to move towards peace in the region, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
The statement followed a phone call between the Russian foreign minister s special envoy for Middle East settlement Vladimir Safronkov and US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Israeli-Palestinian Affairs at the State Department s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs Hady Amr.
February 8, 2021 at 11:45 am
On 6 December 2017, the then US President Donald Trump formally recognised the Palestinian city of Jerusalem as the capital of the occupation state of Israel: Today, we finally acknowledge the obvious: that Jerusalem is Israel s capital: He then relocated the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to the Holy City.
Following Trump s decision, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas suspended contacts with Washington. The relationship soured, and Trump closed the PLO office in the US capital and stopped donations for several essential aid programmes in the occupied Palestinian territories, including the annual donation to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).