The Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki on Thursday labeled the Israeli offensive in Gaza a “war of revenge” and referred to as for a rapid cease-fire.
Al-Maliki’s feedback got here throughout a go to to the Hague amid Israel’s ongoing bombardment of the besieged territory, in response to the Oct. 7 Hamas incursion.
“This time the war that Israel is waging is different. This time … it’s a war of revenge,” Maliki stated in The Hague. “First we need to end this one-sided aggression and then we need to call for a cease-fire.”
He advised reporters at a press convention on the Palestinian Authority’s mission to The Hague that “a cease-fire is essential… for the distribution of humanitarian aid.”
Maliki flew into the Dutch metropolis earlier Wednesday and met prime officers on the International Criminal Court (ICC) together with its chief prosecutor, Karim Khan.
“The situation in Gaza is so dangerous now that it needs immediate intervention by the (ICC) prosecutor,” Maliki stated.
He stated the Palestinian Authority was “working with the ICC prosecutor” and offering the courtroom “with all information to take action.”
Minister al-Maliki briefed the heads of the ICC on the Israeli “crimes and destruction” in Gaza, in accordance with the official WAFA news company.
He met with ICC President Judge Piotr Hofmanski and ICC Registrar Osvaldo Zavala throughout which he knowledgeable them on “the extent of crime and destruction caused by Israel, the occupying power, without any accountability.”
ICJ submission
The prime Palestinian diplomat additionally “stressed the need for ICC to complete its criminal investigation and bring the Israeli perpetrators of war crimes to justice.”
Meanwhile, the Palestinians made a second submission to the U.N.’s highest International Court of Justice, which can be based mostly in The Hague.
The U.N.’s common Assembly has requested the ICJ’s judges for an advisory opinion on occupation in Palestine.
Chief Prosecutor Khan’s workplace stated earlier this month it was “continuously gathering information” in assist of its probe into the Palestinian state of affairs.
It opened a proper investigation in 2021 into the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories, together with alleged crimes by Israeli forces and by Hamas and Palestinian armed teams.
The prosecutor’s workplace “put in place a dedicated team to advance the investigation in relation to the situation in the State of Palestine, the first time a fully resourced team had been established in relation to this situation,” it stated.
Set up in 2002, the ICC’s is the one world unbiased tribunal to probe the world’s worst crimes together with genocide, battle crimes and crimes in opposition to humanity.
Palestine signed as much as the courtroom’s founding Rome Statute in 2015.
Israel, which isn’t a member of the ICC, has refused to cooperate with the probe or acknowledge its jurisdiction.
Source: www.dailysabah.com