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JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel will tell the International Criminal Court it does not recognise the authority of the tribunal, which is planning to investigate possible war crimes in the Palestinian territories, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday.
FILE PHOTO: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gestures as he delivers a speech to supporters following the announcement of exit polls in Israel s general election at his Likud party headquarters in Jerusalem March 24, 2021. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
Netanyahu, after meeting with senior ministers and government officials ahead of a Friday deadline to respond to an ICC notification letter, said Israel would not cooperate with the inquiry, but it will send a response.
Thursday, 08 Apr 2021 11:11 PM MYT
UNRWA workers clean a street at Rafah refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. AFP pic
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AL-JALAZUN REFUGEE CAMP (Palestinian Territories), April 8 In Al-Jalazun refugee camp, Mohammad Zaid today expressed a sentiment not heard from Palestinians during Donald Trump’s presidency: gratitude towards the US, even if for some it’s too little, too late.
Zaid, 49, told AFP that on visits to the clinic of the camp in the Israeli-occupied West Bank after Trump’s 2018 cut in funding for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), he often found it lacked medicine.
After Bitter Trump Years, Palestinians Thank America Again By Claire Gounon with Adel Zaanoun in Gaza City
04/08/21 AT 10:39 AM
In Al-Jalazun refugee camp, Mohammad Zaid on Thursday expressed a sentiment not heard from Palestinians during Donald Trump s presidency: gratitude towards the US, even if for some it s too little, too late.
Zaid, 49, told AFP that on visits to the clinic of the camp in the Israeli-occupied West Bank after Trump s 2018 cut in funding for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), he often found it lacked medicine. We thank America for restoring its support, the restaurant owner said, a day after US President Joe Biden restored aid for the Palestinians to the tune of $235 million, in a sharp break from the staunchly pro-Israel Trump administration.
Israel says will not cooperate with ICC war crimes probe
8 April 2021By AFP
1 min 18Approximate reading time Israel on Thursday said it had formally decided not to cooperate with an International Criminal Court war crimes investigation into the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories. The ICC’s chief prosecutor announced on March 3 that she had opened a full investigation into the situation in the Israeli-occupied territories, infuriating Israel, which is not a member of The Hague-based court. The ICC sent a deferral notice on March 9, which gave Israel and the Palestinian Authority a month to tell judges whether they are investigating crimes similar to those being probed by the ICC.