JERUSALEM, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- Israel's attorney general said on Friday that the International Criminal Court (ICC) has no jurisdiction over Israel and the territories in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The a
Israel reacted swiftly, with Attorney General Avihai Mandelblit who believed that the court has no jurisdiction over Israel since Israel has never joined the court, issuing a legal opinion rejecting the decision. Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Ishtaye said the decision marks "a major and remark...
In a statement, Torres called the decision to seekarrest warrants“not law but politics” as the ICC has no jurisdiction over Israel, adding it’s not “justice but rather a retribution against Israel for the original sin of existing as a Jewish State and the subsequent sin of defending itse...
In the order authorized on Thursday, Trump said the ICC has “without a legitimate basis” asserted jurisdiction over and opened preliminary investigations concerning personnel of the United States and certain of its allies, including Israel. Donald Trump has signed an Executive Order sanctioning the ...
Washington, however, argues that the court has no jurisdiction over the US or Israel, as neither country is a signatory to the Rome Statute. Its attempt to investigate alleged American war crimes in Afghanistan in 2020 resulted in US sanctions against then-ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda. ...
ICC has jurisdiction The ICC found that customary international law prevents a state from exercising criminal jurisdiction against a different head of state. However, article 27(2) of the Rome Statute provides that diplomatic immunity does not bar the ICC from exercising its jurisdiction over such ...
A big part of this is the level of confidence in Israel's own judiciary. "The International Criminal Court has two thresholds that you need to go through [before it has jurisdiction]," Sasson explained. "One of them is a judicial vacuum. If there's a place where justice will not prevai...
Last week the court said it has jurisdiction over war crimes committed in the Palestinian territories, which could lead to an inquiry strongly opposed by non-ICC member Israel and the United States. One of the first decisions by a new prosecutor could be whether to press ahe...
Dozens of countries don’t accept the court’s jurisdiction over war crimes, genocide and other crimes. They include Israel, the United States, Russia and China. The ICC accepted “The State of Palestine” as a member in 2015, a year after the Palestinians accepted the court’s jurisdiction...
There is no way to separate the weakness of this charge from the weakness of the entire case, which exposes how politicized the court has become. Article content Israel, like the United States, is not a party to the Rome Statute and therefore not subject to the court’s jurisdiction. To ...