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Fatou Bensouda, portrait by ICC. 2020.
Big news. The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has officially launched an investigation of war crimes in Israel and Palestine since June 2014. Fatou Bensouda’s decision to investigate the “Situation in Palestine” follows a five-year preliminary inquiry and a ruling by the Court in February that it has jurisdiction to prosecute crimes there.
The investigation would focus on attacks on civilians during the summer 2014 onslaught on Gaza as well as Israeli settlements in the West Bank including Jerusalem.
Palestinians welcomed the decision. Omar Awadallah of the Palestinian ministry of foreign affairs told Al Jazeera: “We understand that Netanyahu and his war criminals should be afraid now from this important body and this important stance by the International Criminal Court.”
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