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Israel to reject ICC war crimes probe

  •   Fri, Apr 09 2021 12:19:10 PM

Tel Aviv, Apr 9 (IANS): The Israeli government Israel said that it will formally reject the International Criminal Court (ICC) investigation into possible war crimes in the occupied Palestinian territories.

Israel will formally respond to a notification from the ICC with a letter to clarify that it will not cooperate with the investigation, Xinhua news agency quoted a statement issued on Thursday by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office.

The letter will "make it clear that the ICC lacks the jurisdiction to investigate" and Israel is able to investigate itself, it said.

Israel also "completely rejects" charges of possible war crimes committed by the Jewish state against the Palestinians, it added.

In February, a panel of judges at the ICC decided that the tribunal does have jurisdiction to investigate possible war crimes by Israel in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem.

Israel captured the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East war.

Israel annexed East Jerusalem shortly after the war, claiming it as part of its "indivisible capital" in an act never recognised by most of the international community.
  

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  • Jack Ist, India

    Sat, Apr 10 2021

    The answer to your question: Israel does not deal with ICC, because ICC does not have jurisdiction over Israel. Both Israel and USA are not part of the ICC system, so there is no reason to cooperate with the. But it can also be clearly stated that the ICC are cowards and hypocrites! Why the ICC does not have a probe against Iran, Syria, North Korea, Russia, Venezuela, Turkey and many other counties where war crimes are committed very frequently?!!! To target Israel is very lowly and very wrong! But as usual in the long history of mankind justice is never served and instead of taking care of the real problems of the world, they always find the Jews and Israel as the scapegoat, so much ignorance and hypocrisy! The ICC like the UN lost its way and became a political organization that ignores real war crimes and wastes its time in blaming one nation! Totally absurd!

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