Toby Sterling, Stephanie van den Berg — Reuters Feb 5, 2021
Judges at the International Criminal Court on Friday found the court has jurisdiction over war crimes committed in the Palestinian territories, paving the way for a possible criminal investigation, despite Israeli objections.
The decision prompted swift reactions from both Israel, which is not a member of the court and rejects its jurisdiction, and the Palestinian Authority, which welcomed the ruling. The United States objected to the decision.
ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said her office was studying the decision and would decide what to do next “guided strictly by its independent and impartial mandate” to prosecute grave war crimes and atrocities when countries are unable or unwilling to do so themselves.
The ICC judges said their decision was based on the fact that Palestine has been granted membership to the tribunal’s founding treaty, and had referred the situation to the court. The judges said the jurisdiction decision does not imply any attempt to determine Palestinian statehood, which is uncertain, or national borders.
“The Court’s territorial jurisdiction in the Situation in Palestine … extends to the territories occupied by Israel since 1967, namely Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem,” they said.
Bensouda had found in December 2019 that “war crimes have been or are being committed in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip.”
She named both the Israeli Defense Forces and armed Palestinian groups such as Hamas as possible perpetrators.
She said then that she saw no reason not to open an investigation, but asked judges to first rule on whether the situation fell under the court’s jurisdiction.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced the decision, saying in a video statement: “When the ICC investigates Israel for fake war crimes, this is pure antisemitism.”
He condemned the court for investigating Israel when it “defends itself against terrorists” while refusing to investigate what he said were brutal dictatorships in Iran and Syria that committed horrific atrocities almost daily.
“We will fight this perversion of justice with all our might,” Netanyahu said in the video, shaking a fist
Human Rights Watch called the decision “pivotal” and said it “finally offers victims of serious crimes some real hope for justice after a half century of impunity,” said Balkees Jarrah, associate international justice director.
“It’s high time that Israeli and Palestinian perpetrators of the gravest abuses – whether war crimes committed during hostilities or the expansion of unlawful settlements – face justice.”
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that it was a “historic day for the principle of accountability.”
Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas official, described the decision as “an important development that contributes in protecting the Palestinian people.”
“We urge the international court to launch an investigation into Israeli war crimes against the Palestinian people,” said Abu Zuhri, who is currently outside Gaza.
U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price wrote on Twitter: “The United States objects to today’s @IntlCrimCourt decision regarding the Palestinian situation.”
“We will continue to uphold President Biden’s strong commitment to Israel and its security, including opposing actions that seek to target Israel unfairly,” Price added.
The Trump administration had vehemently opposed the ICC.
Jamil Dakwar, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Human Rights Program, said U.S. President Joe Biden should do nothing to undermine the ICC’s independence.
“It’s important to remember that the ICC investigation would also target Palestinian perpetrators of war crimes in the context of hostilities between Israel and Palestinian armed groups, especially in the Gaza Strip,” Dakwar said on Twitter.
Don’t hold your breath the kikes will lean on the American politicians to bully everyone into submission, would you trust a Jew or an American their promises are worth less than dog shit.
It sees a “perversion of justice” because it thinks law is just about confining Gentiles.
Really, as if the ICC thinks Israel will listen to them and their ‘jurisdiction’. This is nothing but more pantomime for the masses, to make all those Palestinian campaigners think that something is eventually going to be done to help the, long suffering, Palestinians at the hands of the Jew.
How long has the ICC been operating – nearly 23 years? And it’s now decided to investigate Israel for war crimes? This decision at the time of a worldwide plandemic, a rigged US election, possible armed conflict with Russia and China, on the horizon, certain war against Syria & Iran and much more?
I’m just amazed people fall for this BS. And if by some miracle, it was found, by the ICC, that Israel was clearly guilty of war crimes and a rogue, apartheid state, were somehow led to believe that they’d actually do anything to enforce international arrest warrants? Whatever happened to that international arrest warrant, by Russia, on George Soros?
Its more cinema, more distraction and people fall for this rubbish. Let’s just state one startingly, obvious fact here shall we? If the ICC was going to do anything about Israel, it world have done it, literally, within weeks, if not days, of being established. Also, no peep, whatsoever, from the ICC on 9/11, when they should have arrested the 5 Dancing Israelis and the BBC chief. Complete silence from the ICC on the unlawful invasions of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria, along with no investigation into the murder of Hussein & Gaddafi. No arrests of GW Bush and Tony Blair. Complete silence over the criminal Clinton Foundation. And much more. The ICC, in a word, is a joke. It most certainly did not uphold international law, because there are, clearly, people well above it!
ICC, owned by the Jew. Jew doesn’t prosecute Jew, especially when Jew is murdering non Jew.
Really, I’m just amazed how gullible some people really are.
According to the religion & psychology of these demented mongrel Jews, any gentile or gentile nation who resists their subordination or slavery to Jewish domination, is an ‘anti-semite’.
That bloated museum of treachery and terrorism shown in the photo at the top is one of the most vile creatures ever spawned from Satan’s rectum. Nuttyahoo is a depraved, satanic, psychopathic sack of toxic sludge and a putrid shit-stain on the fabric of humanity.
Of course the Jewnited States objects to the international court’s assertion, as the insane foreign policy of the Jew-S-A is entirely Jew/Israel-centric and inexplicably slavishly beholden to their interests. Ashkenazi Jews are destroyers, parasites, and psychopaths and their presence in any country spells that country’s doom.
The correct spelling is Satanyahu
yes i know you perverted son of satan :
YOU WILL SEND YOUR MOSSAD ASSASINS
TO THE ICC !
yeah Milikowski…the mother of all kickings is coming to you, ‘your’ country, and all your other inbred mafioso!
Quote. [the decision] “does not imply any attempt to determine Palestinian statehood” – WTF?
The state of Palestine existed long before the khazar invasion in the late 1940s.
What planet are these creatures on – or from?
There’s a deadly virus going round that’s going to kill us all, but the symptoms are so mild that we have to take a (fraudulent) “test” to know whether we’ve got it.
There’s a deadly vaccine that’s so safe and effective that we’ve got to be forced to have it, when the manufacturers admit it doesn’t work.
We’ve got to destroy the economy in order to remain affluent.
My dog has fleas, but I haven’t even got a dog.
Black is white, up is down, cold weather is caused by global warming.
Is there any sanity left on Earth, or is sanity an outdated concept?
Stop the world. I want to get off.
@ Barney
“Is there any sanity left on Earth, or is sanity an outdated concept?”
Yes there is, but it is rare and few people still possess it.
I empathize with you. Maybe this will help you understand or give an explanation of what we are witnessing.
What does the Bible say about a strong delusion in the end times (2 Thessalonians 2:9-12)?
“this strong delusion will also be during the time when many will rebel against [Father] God.”
https://www.compellingtruth.org/strong-delusion.html
“Satan, who is the god of this world, has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe. They are unable to see the glorious light of the Good News. They don’t understand this message about the glory of [Emmanuel ] Christ, who is the exact likeness of [Father] God. https://biblehub.com/2_corinthians/4-4.htm
https://wonderisrael.com/emmanuel/