Legal Affairs
The court’s decision to investigate Israeli settlement activities is of “major concern,” warns top former IDF legal official.
Israeli attorney general Avichai Mandelblit decides not to put her Balad Party on trial despite evidence indicating its guilt, citing potential harm to a “wider circle.”
Ilan Yeshua, the former CEO of the Walla news website, is the first of a projected 300 witnesses that will testify in the prime minister’s trial, which experts predict could take up to three years.
The move reflects Washington’s assessment that the measures adopted by the previous administration were “inappropriate and ineffective,” says U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
“This is not just about putting things right, it is about apologizing in profound shame,” said Germany’s Interior Minister Horst Seehofer.
“We have raised the matter with the [Israeli] embassy and informed them that, as a host country, the Netherlands is very invested in the fact that the ICC must be able to carry out its work without interference,” said a Dutch foreign ministry spokesman.
Israeli security forces also questioned Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki’s aides for 90 minutes at the border crossing from Jordan, according to Palestinian sources.
The Israeli president appealed to his French counterpart to stand by the Jewish state in the face of the court’s “morally and legally bankrupt” decision to launch a war-crimes investigation against the IDF.
In the first of a planned series of working meetings with European leaders, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin and his German counterpart, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, discuss Iran, the ICC, COVID-19 and more.
Responding to the International Criminal Court’s decision to investigate actions made by the Israel Defense Forces—calling them “war crimes”—Professor Boaz Ganor tells JNS that modern terrorists have adapted their activities to exploit the constraints of combat faced by liberal democratic states.
Prague’s move is “a blatant attack on the Palestinian people and their rights,” says the P.A. Foreign Ministry • “East Jerusalem is occupied land under international law,” claims the Arab League secretary-general.
The International Criminal Court’s ruling to investigate Israel for alleged war crimes in Gaza “was made in sin and will inevitably end in sin,” say the families of Naftali Frenkel, Gilad Shaer and Eyal Yifrach.
