International Criminal Court investigation in Palestine
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The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda, on 20 December 2019 announced an investigation into war crimes allegedly committed in Palestine by members of the Israeli military or Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups since 13 June 2014.[1][2]
File no. | 01/18 |
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Referred by | State of Palestine |
Date referred | 22 May 2018 |
Date opened | 3 March 2021 (2021-03-03) |
Incident(s) | Israeli–Palestinian conflict since 13 June 2014[1] (2014 Gaza War, 2023 Israel–Hamas war) |
Crimes | War crimes: |
Status of suspect |
The allegations include the establishing of illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and violations of the law of war by members of the Israeli military during the 2014 Gaza War, including claims of targeting Red Cross installations. Members of armed Palestinian organizations, including Hamas, were accused of deliberately attacking Israeli civilians and using Palestinians as human shields.[2][3][4]
Israel is not a member of the ICC and disputes its jurisdiction on the basis that Palestine is not a sovereign state capable of being a party to the Rome Statute, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeatedly condemned the allegations and investigation as "antisemitic".[5] According to ICC chief prosecutor Karim Ahmad Khan, suspected war crimes by Israelis on Palestinian territory and by Palestinians on Israeli territory during the 2023 Israel–Hamas war are within the jurisdiction of the Palestine investigation.[6]