Right-wing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC), following an earlier announcement by the court that it intends to investigate alleged war crimes in the occupied Palestinian territories.
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UN Special Rapporteur Praises ICC Investigationhttps://t.co/qSS5L94DOP https://t.co/qSS5L94DOP— PEng Suraj Singh (@pesuraj) January 1, 2020
“The US government under President Trump has spoken forcefully against the ICC for this travesty, and I urge all your viewers to do the same, to ask for concrete actions, sanctions, against the international court – its officials, its prosecutors, everyone,” Netanyahu said during an interview with Trinity Broadcasting Network.
Meanwhile, the ICC announced on Tuesday that it will delay its debate on the issue, which is intended to determine “whether it has the jurisdiction to probe alleged Israeli war crimes in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem due to a procedural error related to the filing’s page limit,” The Guardian newspaper reported.
Justice at Last? ‘Panic’ in #Israel as the #ICC Takes ‘Momentous Step’ in the Right Direction https://t.co/4U2hWSiQKw via @PalestineChron pic.twitter.com/z0Mk1pxklc
— Ramzy Baroud (@RamzyBaroud) January 15, 2020
Editor of The Palestine Chronicle, Palestinian journalist Ramzy Baroud commented that “the high level of the ICC investigations places the legal push against Israel at an entirely new level.”
“This is uncharted territory for Israel, the United States, Palestine, the ICC, and the international community as a whole. There is little doubt that some joint Israeli-American effort is already underway to develop strategies aimed at countering, if not altogether dismissing, the ICC investigation,” Baroud added.
(The Palestine Chronicle)
