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Related: About this forumExclusive: Palestine seeks to charge Israel with ‘apartheid’ and war crimes at The Hague
http://mondoweiss.net/2015/06/exclusive-palestine-apartheid
Palestinian leaders seek to charge Israel at the International Criminal Court in The Hague with the crime of Apartheid and 22 other criminal counts, including seven war crimes. A thick set of documents containing evidence and arguments was ceremoniously handed over to the ICC today at its headquarters, according to Shawan Jabarin, the director of the Palestinian human rights group Al Haq.
Jabarin said he had seen the documents in Ramallah and that the case file covers three areas of Israeli violations under international law: the summer war in Gaza in 2014, settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, and issues relating to Palestinian prisoners. Most of the pages are of legal analysis and legal arguments he said, in which Palestinians gave technical explanations to the court for how Israel broke specific regulations.
The dossier is organized into sections, one for each of the 23 counts against Israel. Aside from asserting that Israel has violated the United Nations definition of Apartheid, Jabarin said the report also names specific crimes such as the targeting of civilians in Gaza, and violations of rights to due process for Palestinian detainees held in Israeli prisons who are then prosecuted under Israeli military code.
Military courts boast a 99.9% conviction rate and trials last an average of five minutes. Palestinians rights groups say these courts violate their fundamental rights to a fair trial. Additionally, Israel transfers Palestinians from the occupied territory to a number of prisons inside Israel in what the Palestinian brief argues is a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
Palestinian leaders seek to charge Israel at the International Criminal Court in The Hague with the crime of Apartheid and 22 other criminal counts, including seven war crimes. A thick set of documents containing evidence and arguments was ceremoniously handed over to the ICC today at its headquarters, according to Shawan Jabarin, the director of the Palestinian human rights group Al Haq.
Jabarin said he had seen the documents in Ramallah and that the case file covers three areas of Israeli violations under international law: the summer war in Gaza in 2014, settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, and issues relating to Palestinian prisoners. Most of the pages are of legal analysis and legal arguments he said, in which Palestinians gave technical explanations to the court for how Israel broke specific regulations.
The dossier is organized into sections, one for each of the 23 counts against Israel. Aside from asserting that Israel has violated the United Nations definition of Apartheid, Jabarin said the report also names specific crimes such as the targeting of civilians in Gaza, and violations of rights to due process for Palestinian detainees held in Israeli prisons who are then prosecuted under Israeli military code.
Military courts boast a 99.9% conviction rate and trials last an average of five minutes. Palestinians rights groups say these courts violate their fundamental rights to a fair trial. Additionally, Israel transfers Palestinians from the occupied territory to a number of prisons inside Israel in what the Palestinian brief argues is a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
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Exclusive: Palestine seeks to charge Israel with ‘apartheid’ and war crimes at The Hague (Original Post)
R. Daneel Olivaw
Jun 2015
OP
Why is Mondoweiss claiming this is an "exclusive" when it was in the NY Times 2 days ago?
oberliner
Jun 2015
#1
Whe all the hasbarists do is whine it becomes pretty obvious that they are not
R. Daneel Olivaw
Jun 2015
#3
oberliner
(58,724 posts)1. Why is Mondoweiss claiming this is an "exclusive" when it was in the NY Times 2 days ago?
Palestinians to Seek War Crimes Charges Against Israel at Hague Court
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/25/world/middleeast/palestinians-to-accuse-israel-of-war-crimes-in-international-court.html
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)2. Any response as to the specifics cited in the article? eom
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)3. Whe all the hasbarists do is whine it becomes pretty obvious that they are not
interested in...
1. The truth
2. Discussing it
3. arguing a valid point vs aged talking points.