The International Criminal Court (ICC) was established in 2002 by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate and try individuals suspected of committing genocide, war crimes, Crimes Against Humanity and aggression. The ICC is responsible for investigating and trying individuals suspected of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and crimes of aggression.
The ICC currently has 122 member states with jurisdiction over their citizens and organizations, and can also be responsible for cases referred to it by UN Security Council resolutions. However, the United States, China and Russia, which are permanent members of the UN Security Council, are not members, nor is Israel.
The ICC, headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands, employs more than 900 people from about 100 countries, speaks English, French, Russian, Spanish, Arabic and Chinese as official languages, and English and French as working languages, and had a total budget of 149 million euros last year.
The court has jurisdiction over Palestine
The International Criminal Court (ICC) ruled on Friday that it has jurisdiction over Israeli-occupied Palestinian land, meaning it may then investigate war crimes committed by the Israeli military. Palestine hailed this as a “judicial victory,” but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu angrily denounced the ICC as an anti-Semitic “political organization,” stressing that it will use all its power to confront “judicial abuse. “. The United States, which is also not a member of the court, also backed Israel.
U.S. backs Israel against the ruling
The ICC’s chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, stated in 2019 that they had a “reasonable basis The ICC’s chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, stated in 2009 that they had a “reasonable basis” to launch a “war crimes” investigation into the Israeli military’s 2014 military operations in the Gaza Corridor, its ongoing settlement of the West Bank, and its annexation of East Jerusalem. Most of the international community believes that Israel’s settlement practices do not comply with international law, but there is little pressure on Israel to stop.
Israeli Prime Minister denounces “anti-Semitic political organizations”
The ruling sparked polarized reactions, with the Palestinians, who joined the ICC in 1995, hailing it as a “judicial victory” and Human Rights Watch praising it as a way to bring justice to the victims. However, Netanyahu denounced the ICC not as a judicial body, but as an anti-Semitic “political organization” that ignores the daily war crimes in Iran and Turkey, and instead persecutes Israel, which upholds democracy and the rule of law and is not even a member of the ICC, “We will use all our strength to fight against judicial abuse. “.
Netanyahu also reiterated that Palestine is not a state and that the issue of Israeli-Palestinian borders should be decided by the subsequent peace negotiations, insisting that the ICC simply does not have jurisdiction. However, the ICC stressed that their decision was based on the fact that Palestine had been granted membership in the ICC and that the ruling on jurisdiction did not involve determining state borders or that Palestine had statehood.
Meanwhile, U.S. State Department spokesman Price also expressed the U.S. “serious concerns” that the ICC’s jurisdiction should only involve member states, or cases entrusted to it by the UN Security Council, and that the U.S. does not believe that Palestine can participate in international organizations, entities or meetings as a state. Former President Trump imposed sanctions on ICC officials last year, including revoking prosecutor Ben Soda’s entry visa and responding to a court case against U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan for war crimes.
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