ICC claims authority to probe alleged crimes in Gaza and West Bank vaticannews.va

This precedent-setting decision comes six years after the launch of an investigation of Israeli actions in the territories – relating in particular to the 50-day Gaza war in 2014.

The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, expressed anger at the decision, asserting that the International Criminal Court (ICC) – a body which Israel does not recognize – displayed ‘pure anti-Semitism’ and had ‘again demonstrated’ that it was a political, and not a legal, institution.

“The court ignores real war crimes and instead persecutes the state of Israel, a state with a firm democratic regime, which sanctifies the rule of law, and is not a member of the court,” Netanyahu said in a statement…

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