Palestine prepares to submit file that could see Israeli officials indicted

[Eugene]

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 o’clock 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 ICC’s 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 Council’s report on last summer’s 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”.

[font size=1]-snip-[/font]

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/24/palestine-prepares-tsubmit-file-israeli-officials-indicted-international-criminal-court

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. Good.

Now Israel can submit documents to go after Palestinian war criminals, and war criminals from both sides can be tried as they deserve.

I only wish American war criminals could be brought to trial as well.