{"id":83365,"date":"2021-02-18T10:58:45","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T05:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=83365"},"modified":"2021-02-18T11:55:35","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T06:25:35","slug":"icc-ruling-over-palestinian-territories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/icc-ruling-over-palestinian-territories\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018ICC ruling\u2019 over Palestinian Territories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Synopsis:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The recent <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/international-criminal-court-icc-has-jurisdiction-in-palestinian-territories\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ICC (International Criminal Court) ruling<\/a> allows it to prosecute war crimes in Palestinian Territories. The ruling is welcomed by Palestine but criticized by the U.S. and Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Background:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Israel had been accused of committing atrocities in Palestinian Territories of West Bank and Gaza Strip since 1967.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Palestine joined the ICC in 2015 but remained silent towards the atrocities during the Trump administration. It was because it didn\u2019t want to end U.S. aid towards Palestinian Territories.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>It is notable that the US Congress was allowed to freeze US Aid in Palestinian territory if Palestine pursues its own legal matters.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The change of administration in the U.S. allowed it to be more focal in the ICC. The recent February 2021 ruling of ICC is a result of this changed stance.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>About the Ruling<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It allows the ICC to <\/span><b>investigate <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">persons committing <\/span><b>war crimes in the Palestinian Territories <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of West Bank and Gaza Strip.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>However, there is no possibility of immediate investigations, even on the cases already filed in front of ICC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table style=\"width: 95.8333%; height: 221px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 237px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 237px;\"><b>International Criminal Court<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the only court in the world to try individuals for international crimes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is headquartered in Haque, Netherlands.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Not only that, but it is empowered to try crimes of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and the crime of aggression.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A war crime is an act that constitutes a serious violation of the laws of war which includes intentionally killing civilians or prisoners, torturing, destroying civilian property among others.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><b>Significance of Judgement:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It will ensure<\/span><b> accountability and justice<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> delivery in the region.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It will ensure that individuals and militant groups like Hamas are subjected to international law. Furthermore, it will impose <\/span><b>adequate criminal responsibility<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0on them.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>The response of various countries<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Palestine<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: It welcomed the judgement as a step towards correcting past injustices suffered by the country since the 1967 occupation of Israel.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Israel<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: It criticised the judgement of being Anti-Semitic and accused the court of ignoring atrocities done by Iran and Syria in the region.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>US:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It objected against the judgement and reminded that Israel was not a member of the ICC.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>India<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: It has refrained from commenting on the judgement based on its geopolitical interest as both Palestine and Israel share a good bond with it.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ICC has said that any future conduct would be based on a thorough examination of judgement based on principles of impartiality and objectivity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synopsis: The recent ICC (International Criminal Court) ruling allows it to prosecute war crimes in Palestinian Territories. The ruling is welcomed by Palestine but criticized by the U.S. and Israel. Background:\u00a0 Israel had been accused of committing atrocities in Palestinian Territories of West Bank and Gaza Strip since 1967. Palestine joined the ICC in 2015&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/icc-ruling-over-palestinian-territories\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018ICC ruling\u2019 over Palestinian Territories<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[1333,1420],"class_list":["post-83365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-ir_0","tag-ir_3","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1701401585},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}