The Palestinians will submit their first file to the International Criminal Court next week in their bid to open criminal proceedings against Israel, an official says on Thursday.
The move is part of an increased focus on diplomatic maneuvering and appeals to international bodies by the Palestinians, who have been frustrated by a lack of progress in ending the Israeli occupation and creating their own independent state.
The file is to be handed to ICC chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda on June 25, and will detail alleged violations of international law by the Jewish state, Palestinian Foreign Ministry official Ammar Hijazi tells reporters in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
On April 1, the Palestinians formally joined the ICC with the goal of trying Israeli leaders for alleged abuses during last summer’s war in the Gaza Strip, and alleged crimes relating to the occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
The file is “only general, it’s only statistical,” Hijazi said.
“But it certainly draws a grim picture of what Israel is doing and why we think that there are reasonable grounds… for the prosecutor to start [her] investigations.”
— AFP
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