This is the Forward’s coverage of the International Criminal Court, an intergovernmental organization that prosecutes individuals for war crimes.
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Fast Forward International Criminal Court Will Not Prosecute Israel In Gaza Flotilla Incident
The International Criminal Court said it will not open a war crimes case against Israel in the Mavi Marmara incident. The Hague court on Thursday reportedly closed a preliminary investigation into the May 2010 incident in which nine Turkish passengers, including one U.S. citizen, were killed in clashes with Israeli commandos who had boarded the…
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Fast Forward ‘War Crimes’ Push Would End Peace Process, Benjamin Netanyahu Says
A Palestinian push to try Israeli officials for war crimes at a U.N. tribunal would end any chance of reaching a peace deal, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. Netanyahu spoke to Army Radio on Friday, a day after the Palestinian Authority’s envoy to the United Nations said his government would join the International Criminal…
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Fast Forward International Criminal Court Prosecutor: ‘Palestine’ Can Join Rome Statute
“Palestine” is now eligible to join the Rome Statute and file war crimes charges against Israel, the International Criminal Court prosecutor said. ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda on Aug. 29 wrote an op-ed in the British newspaper The Guardian to answer charges that the ICC has avoided opening an investigation into alleged war crimes in Gaza…
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Fast Forward Hamas Endorses International Criminal Court War Crimes Push
Hamas leaders said on Saturday they had given their consent for the Palestinians to join the International Criminal Court (ICC), a move that could open up both Israel and the militant group to war crime probes over the fighting in Gaza. Moussa Abu Marzouk, a Hamas leader based in Cairo, said he had signed a…
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Fast Forward Palestinians Move Closer To War Crimes Case Against Israel
The possibility of a war crimes investigation into the conduct of Israeli forces in Gaza, until recently unthinkable, has grown after the Palestinians said this week they wanted to become a party to the International Criminal Court. The world’s permanent war crimes court in The Hague declined two years ago to investigate allegations against the…
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Fast Forward Palestinians Charge ‘Clear Evidence’ of Gaza War Crimes — Meet With ICC
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad al-Malki said there was “clear evidence” of war crimes by Israel during its offensive in Gaza as he met International Criminal Court prosecutors on Tuesday to push for an investigation. Malki visited The Hague shortly after Israel and the Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement that rules Gaza entered a 72-hour truce mediated…
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Opinion WATCH: PLO Envoy Calls Hamas Rockets ‘Crimes Against Humanity’
Here’s a remarkable bit of television — official Palestinian Authority TV, to be specific — in which the Palestinian delegate to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva tells an interviewer that Hamas’s rocket fire from Gaza is a crime against humanity. Plain and simple, no hedging. In Arabic (with English subtitles). Watch it…
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Fast Forward Mahmoud Abbas Calls Gaza Attack ‘Genocide’ — Moves To Join International Criminal Court
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called Israel’s expanded operation in Gaza a “genocide” — and moved ahead with plans to join the International Criminal Court. “It’s genocide — the killing of entire families is genocide by Israel against our Palestinian people,” he told a meeting of the Palestinian leadership at his headquarters in the West…
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