Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has frozen plans to apply Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan Valley, Yediot Aharonot reported Tuesday, after the International Criminal Court announced last Friday that it would investigate Israel for alleged war crimes in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza.
According to the report, Netanyahu nixed a planned meeting of an inter-ministerial team charged with handling the proposed application of Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan Valley.
Sources told Yediot that the meeting had been slated to take place over the weekend, but was cancelled after the ICC announced it would probe Palestinian Arab allegations of Israeli war crimes in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza – including claims against Israeli towns beyond the pre-1967 Green Line.
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