ICC has jurisdiction to probe Israel, Hamas for war crimes, pretrial judges rule
Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US correspondent based in New York The Pre-Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC), composed of Judge Péter Kovács, Presiding Judge, Judge Marc Perrin de Brichambaut and Judge Reine Alapini-Gansou (courtesy ICC) In a major decision released Friday, a pretrial chamber of the International Criminal Court determined that The Hague has jurisdiction to open a criminal investigation against Israel and the Palestinians for war crimes alleged to have taken place in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. ICC chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda ...