International Criminal Court investigation in Palestine

Situation in State of Palestine
	The seal of the International Criminal Court
File no.	01/18
Referred by	State of Palestine
Date referred	22 May 2018
Date opened	3 March 2021
Incident(s)	Israeli–Palestinian conflict since 13 June 2014; (2014 Gaza War, Israel–Hamas war)
Crimes	War crimes:
Status of suspects
Yahya Sinwar	Arrest warrant requested
Mohammed Deif	Arrest warrant requested
Ismail Haniyeh	Arrest warrant requested
Benjamin Netanyahu	Arrest warrant requested
Yoav Gallant	Arrest warrant requested

The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda, on 20 December 2019 announced an investigation into war crimes allegedly committed in Palestine by members of the Israeli military or Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups since 13 June 2014.^[1]^[2]

The allegations include the establishing of illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and violations of the law of war by members of the Israeli military during the 2014 Gaza War, including claims of targeting Red Cross installations. Members of armed Palestinian organizations, including Hamas, were accused of deliberately attacking Israeli civilians and using Palestinians as human shields.^[2]^[3]^[4] Since the investigation was opened in 2015, Israel used its intelligence agencies to surveil, pressure, and threaten senior ICC staff.^[5]

Israel is not a member of the ICC and disputes its jurisdiction on the basis that Palestine is not a sovereign state capable of being a party to the Rome Statute, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeatedly condemned the allegations and investigation as "antisemitic".^[6] According to ICC chief prosecutor Karim Ahmad Khan, suspected war crimes by Israelis on Palestinian territory and by Palestinians on Israeli territory during the Israel–Hamas war are within the jurisdiction of the Palestine investigation.^[7]

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