FIVE COUNTRIES REQUEST ICC INVESTIGATE ISRAEL FOR WAR CRIMES
December 11, 2023The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor Karim Khan says his office has received a referral from five countries to investigate whether crimes have been committed in the Palestinian territories as part of Israel’s response to the October 7 Hamas terror attacks.
South Africa, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Comoros and Djibouti submitted the referral, Khan said.
“In accordance with the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, a State Party may refer to the Prosecutor a situation in which one or more crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court appear to have been committed requesting the Prosecutor to investigate the situation for the purpose of determining whether one or more specific persons should be charged with the commission of such crimes,” Khan said in a statement.
He noted that his office was already conducting an investigation on the situation in the Palestinian territories over possible crimes committed since June 2014 in Gaza and the West Bank. The investigation began in March 2021.
We encourage more countries to file similar claims against Israel to ensure that all parties be held accountable and justice is served.
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We have some breaking news for you here on Sky News tonight, and that comes from the International Criminal Court. The prosecutor, Karim Khan, has said he’s received a joint request from five countries to investigate the situation in the Palestinian territories says Karim Khan, prosecutor, says the referral has come from South Africa, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Comoros and Djibouti, which was requested to ensure that the ICC pays urgent attention to the grave situation in Palestine. Of course, the ICC already has an ongoing investigation, last month the prosecutor from the ICC confirmed that his office has jurisdiction both over Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7th and any crimes committed as part of Israel’s response, including the bombings in the Gaza Strip. So five countries have called on the ICC to investigate the conduct in the Palestinian territories.