Momentum grows for ICC action on Gaza As the sounds of gunfire in the Gaza Strip begin to cease, international human rights organizations, legal experts and political activists are speaking up about the need for the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate whether war crimes were committed during the Gaza conflict this summer. The ICC, created by means of the 1998 Rome Statute with the aim of prosecuting individuals for war crimes and amended a few times, became legal in 2002. Legal experts and the ICC’s own bylaws say that it is a court of last resort. This means that the ICC will only intervene when a country is found to be unwilling or unable to carry out its own investigation. At present, neither Israel nor the state of Palestine are members of the ICC. A total of 122 countries have signed up for the Rome Statute, and Jordan is the only Arab country to have done so. Read more: al-monitor/pulse/originals/2014/08/icc-gaza-war-israel-crimes-amnesty-palestine-hamas.html#ixzz3AFK1kcsP
Posted on: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 05:15:39 +0000
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