Palestine to lodge ICC case against Israel in April – official

[SecularMotion]

Source: RT

Palestine’s first complaint against Israel's alleged war crimes will be filed at the International Criminal Court in April, according to a senior Palestinian official. The issue will reportedly be related to the 2014 war in Gaza.

"One of the first important steps will be filing a complaint against Israel at the ICC on April 1 over the [2014] Gaza war and settlement activity," Mohammed Shtayyeh, a member of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) told AP on Monday.

The Palestinians will be able to take legal action at the court based in The Hague, Netherlands, after the nation moved to join the international authority formally in January. According to the court's procedures, "the statute will enter into force for the State of Palestine on April 1."

Israel's foreign ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nachshon expressed his country’s refusal to react to the declaration, describing it as "speculative and hypothetical," as quoted by AP. The Israeli administration has for decades consistently opposed Palestine's legal power to sue Israel for war crimes.

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[leftynyc]

1. What a waste of time

Israel doesn't belong to the ICC so this is nothing but beating their chests. What are they hoping to accomplish?

[karynnj]

2. If there were nothing to accomplish, Israel and the US would not be trying

to minimize the chance that it happens.

I agree that they can not actually indict Netanyahu or anyone else from Israel, but they could get a forum for their grievances. Note that they do not have a state where they can bring their complaints.

[leftynyc]

4. So the answer to my question

would be it will accomplish exactly nothing.

[Scootaloo]

3. Momentum.

It's better than stagnation, after all.