Palestine prepares to submit file that could see Israeli officials indicted
Source: The Guardian
Palestine prepares to submit file that could see Israeli officials indicted
Peter Beaumont in Ramallah
Wednesday 24 June 2015 05.00 BST
Between 10 and 11 oclock on Thursday morning if all goes according to schedule the Palestinian foreign minister, Riyad al-Maliki, will arrive with a delegation at the office of the prosecutor of the international criminal court in The Hague.
In an unassuming modern suite of offices in the ICCs white tower block, he will hand over a file running to hundreds of pages. Those documents describe to prosecutors for the first time in detail the Palestinian complaint against Israel for alleged breaches of international law, including serious war crimes.
In doing so al-Maliki will set in motion a chain of events that could eventually see senior Israeli military and political officials indicted for breaches of international law.
The presentation of the Palestinian submission to the ICC will be given added impetus as it follows hard on the heels of the UN Human Rights Councils report on last summers war in Gaza on Monday, which accused both Israel and Hamas of potential war crimes and called for those responsible to be brought to justice.
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