Palestinian officials slammed a report from the International Criminal Court that includes a warning that rewarding terrorists and their families could be a war crime.
Palestinian Authority Foreign Affairs Minister Riad Malki said the report was “based on misleading narratives of a political nature … rather than an objective and accurate description of the relevant facts.”
The United States in March 2018 defunded most of its assistance to the Palestinian Authority for rewarding terrorists and their families, known as “pay to slay.”
The Palestinians have sought to use the ICC to prosecute alleged Israeli war crimes.
The report, released on Thursday, included alleged crimes by Israel and the Palestinian Authority under investigation, including Israel’s defense against rioters at its border with Gaza and Palestinian terrorists launching rockets from Gaza into the Jewish state, in addition to using civilians as human shields.
Finally, at the Palestinians’ request, ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda opened in 2015 a preliminary probe into possible international law violations, following the 2014 war between Hamas and Israel.
Bensouda believes that “it is time to take the necessary steps to bring the preliminary examination to a conclusion,” stated the report.
(JNS)
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Israel wasn’t fending off rioters at the border of Gaza. It was murdering people. You can’t riot in your own field and most of the people, many of those killed, were peaceful anyway.
Absolutely true.
The peaceful Gazans were peacefully flinging their peaceful molotov cocktails, peacefully firing their peaceful guns and peacefully launching their peaceful rockets at the warmongering Israeli civilian men, women and children (including infants) who were belligerently huddling in bomb shelters while the peaceful rockets flew overhead and in some cases demolished their homes.
Oh, and let’s not forget the peaceful terror tunnels through which the peaceful Gaza terrorists invade Israel, violate ceasefire agreements, and seek to peacefully murder any and every Jew who they encounter.
What a peaceful group of inhuman, bloodthirsty savages! Why in the world doesn’t Israel appreciate their peacefulness?