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Topic: ICC International Criminal Court

April 4, 2013
6:50 am

Crowds in Ramallah watch the speech of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the UN, November 29, 2012 (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Giving US efforts a chance, Ramallah reportedly suspends recognition bids

Sources tell Haaretz newspaper that Mahmoud Abbas is willing to stop unilateral moves for 8 weeks while Washington tries to jump-start peace talks

By Times of Israel staff and AP

March 21, 2013
9:44 am

President of Sudan Omar al-Bashir during a television interview in January 2011. (screencapture: Youtube/AlJazeeraEnglish)

Sudanese leader Bashir to step down in 2015

Omar al-Bashir, charged by the International Criminal Court with war crimes in Darfur, says it is time for ‘fresh blood’

March 18, 2013
2:40 am

Movers help to evacuate the West Bank outpost of Migron last September (photo credit: Oren Nahshon/Flash90)

Group calls on ICC to investigate Israel’s ‘crimes’

Russell Tribunal on Palestine also urges extraordinary session of UN apartheid committee to examine Israel

By Times of Israel staff

February 17, 2013
2:24 pm

Syrian rebels stand in the rubble of buildings damaged by government airstrikes, in Aleppo, Syria, Wednesday, February 13, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Aleppo Media Center AMC)

Power returns to Damascus as fighting rages

Much of southern Syria and its capital without electricity since Saturday

By Jamal Halaby

January 31, 2013
2:36 pm

A West Bank settlement, May 2012 (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Israel must pull out of settlements, UN report says

Jerusalem rejects ‘biased’ Human Rights Council finding that West Bank Jewish communities are illegal

January 24, 2013
12:24 am

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki holds a joint press conference with Jordan's Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh (not seen), in the West Bank city of Ramallah. December 06, 2012 (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Palestinian FM threatens to go to Hague over E1 building

From the web Reuters: Riad Malki tells reporters Ramallah will have no choice but to petition International Criminal Court if controversial construction plan goes forward

January 12, 2013
3:52 am

The International Criminal Court in The Hague (photo credit: CC-BY-SA Hanhil, Nederlandstalige Wikipedia)

Efforts launched to take Syria to ICC for war crimes

Dozens of countries to urge UN Security Council to turn to the Hague

December 25, 2012
12:47 pm

Mahmoud Abbas at the Church of the Nativity, Christmas Eve 2012 (photo credit: AP/Abed Al Hashlamoun)

Abbas makes Christmas appeal for return to talks

Palestinian leader tells Bethlehem worshipers that Israel, Palestinians must abide by international law; calls for East Jerusalem building plans to be rescinded

By Asher Zeiger

December 20, 2012
10:16 pm

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Palestinians aim to change the rules, harness international community to isolate Israel

If Netanyahu is reelected, PA officials are set to advance war crimes charges and end security cooperation in the West Bank

By Mohammed Daraghmeh

December 12, 2012
6:24 am

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas waves to the crowd during celebrations for their successful bid to win nonmember state status at the UN in Ramallah, Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012 (photo credit: Nasser Shiyoukhi/AP Photo)

Is Palestine a state? That may depend on the Palestinians

While international legal scholars debate the weight of ‘nonmember observer state’ status, the burden is ultimately on the Palestinians to show that they can act like a sovereign power

By Raphael Ahren

December 11, 2012
11:14 pm

Jordan's King Abdullah II (photo credit: Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90)

Jordanian king slams Israel’s ‘unilateral policies’

Abdullah meets with British PM, expresses hope in reestablishing peace process

By Asher Zeiger

December 11, 2012
7:36 pm

Turkish President Abdullah Gul (photo credit: Pierre Terdjman/Flash90)

Turkish president slams Israeli settlement activity, says Jerusalem ‘playing with fire’

In Ankara, Abbas reiterates threat to turn to International Criminal Court if latest plans to build in the West Bank go through

By Aaron Kalman

December 5, 2012
1:25 am

Construction workers are seen at the E-1 construction site near Maaleh Adumim in 2007. (photo credit: Sebastian Scheiner/AP)

Palestinians’ war crimes case against Israel would face long road

Trying to prosecute Israel is not so simple, and could leave the Palestinians themselves vulnerable to prosecution

By Josef Federman and Mike Corder

December 4, 2012
10:11 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the National Public Diplomacy Forum about the IDF's Operation Pillar of Defense on Tuesday. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

Root of the conflict is not settlements, but Israel’s very existence, Netanyahu says

If Israel goes ahead with plans to build in E1 area east of Jerusalem, then two-state solution ‘is over,’ Palestinians charge as international anger mounts

By Times of Israel staff and AP

December 1, 2012
11:40 am

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, center, leaves the United Nations Plaza Hotel on Friday (photo credit: AP/Louis Lanzano)

Abbas says Palestine now ‘a country under occupation’

PA president says he’s not ready to turn to the ICC yet

By Yoel Goldman

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