Bereaved Gazans Look To ICC For Closure By Mai Yaghi
02/13/21 AT 11:25 PM
During the 2014 war in Gaza, Nevine Barakat lost her husband and saw three of her five children wounded in an Israeli bombardment of a school.
Today, she hopes the International Criminal Court (ICC) will finally bring them justice.
When the court ruled last week that it had jurisdiction in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories, opening the way for a war crimes investigation, Barakat immediately felt happy and full of hope . It was as if the world was beginning to understand that Israeli injustice had to be ended, she told AFP, fighting back tears.
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Incoming ICC prosecutor Karim Khan in Baghdad, July 27, 2019. (Sabah Arar/AFP)
UNITED NATIONS Member states of the International Criminal Court elected British barrister Karim Khan the next prosecutor of the war crimes tribunal on Friday, ending a drawn-out and divisive process to replace Fatou Bensouda when her 9-year term expires later this year.
Khan, an assistant UN secretary-general, was widely seen as the favorite to get the job. But neither Khan nor any of the other candidates garnered enough support to be appointed by consensus, prompting Friday’s election in the UN General Assembly Hall.
Khan won on the second ballot of the 123 parties to the Rome Statute that established the tribunal. He received 72 votes, ahead of Fergal Gaynor of Ireland with 42 votes, Spain’s Carlos Castresana Fernandez with 5 votes and Francesco Lo Voi of Italy with 3 votes. One member did not vote.
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