Today on
Sekulow, we discussed the ICC’s targeting of Israel. ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda has announced that she is beginning an investigation into Israel for potential war crimes.
The ICC has flirted with this idea of an investigation of Israel for years. But the prosecutor – who is actually leaving office this year when her term ends in June – announced yesterday that in fact, she is going to begin this investigation of Israel over alleged war crimes in what they call the Palestinian territories..
I have to say this right up front. The United States State Department has issued a fantastic statement condemning the investigation.. As I said on the broadcast, that may come as a shock to our listeners. What that really means is that your voice matters. We at the ACLJ take a position and it does make a difference.
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THE chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda, confirmed on Wednesday that the ICC has opened a formal investigation into war crimes committed by Israel in the occupied Palestinian territories in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Bensouda’s announcement was welcomed as ‘a historic day in the decades-long Palestinian campaign for international justice and accountability’ by Palestinian human rights groups.
The human rights group Amnesty International hailed the decision as a momentous breakthrough with Matthew Cannock, head of Amnesty’s Centre for International Justice, saying: ‘Today’s confirmation by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court that she has opened an investigation into crimes under international law committed in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) is a momentous breakthrough for justice after decades of non-accountability for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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Palestinian protest against the Israeli execution of paramedic Razan Al Najjar in the Gaza Strip in June 2018
AMNESTY International (AI) described yesterdayâs decision by Fatou Bensouda, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), to open a formal investigation into the situation in Palestine as a âmomentous breakthroughâ.
âTodayâs confirmation by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court that she has opened an investigation into crimes under international law committed in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) is a momentous breakthrough for justice after decades of non-accountability for war crimes and crimes against humanity,â said Matthew Cannock, Head of Amnesty Internationalâs Centre for International Justice.
Today, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), whose term ends in June, confirmed the opening of an investigation into the Palestinian.