PALESTINE
Wed 29 May 2024 7:29 pm - Jerusalem Time
The international team of lawyers calls on ICC to issue “urgent” arrest warrants against all Israeli criminals.
Today, Wednesday, the international legal team submitted the third annex to the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, to be attached to the complaint submitted on December 6, 2023, to which they had previously attached the first annex dated March 20, 2024, and the second annex dated May 8. / May 2024.
The Kuwaiti international team of lawyers is headed by Dr. Faisal Khazal, while the team includes among its Tunisian members Mr. Akram Al-Zaribi, Mr. Shawqi Al-Tabib, and Mr. Suhail Ashour, the former head of the Palestinian Bar Association. Note that this international team was authorized by the Palestinian Bar Association, as it possesses the legal capacity that... It grants it the right to represent all the Palestinian people in their legal rights, after the massacre committed by the Israeli occupation forces in the refugee camps in Rafah on Sunday, May 26, 2024.
In this annex, the team called on the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants - as a matter of urgency - against all of the defendants, given that crimes and felonies are not limited to the decision makers mentioned in Nos. 2 and 4 in the list of defendants on the front of the annex, meaning Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister The Israeli army Yoav Galant, but extends to the perpetrators of crimes who are mentioned in the rest of the aforementioned list, as soon as possible, as the arrest warrants announced by the Public Prosecutor’s Office on May 20, 2024 have not been issued to date, and need to be expedited in issuing them. As practical steps on the ground, public opinion shows the position of the International Criminal Court, and the determination of the International Public Prosecution Office to implement its decisions announced in the aforementioned press conference.
The team stated in Appendix No. 3 of the complaint, “The entire world, including the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, witnessed last Sunday, May 26, 2024, and the days that followed, one of the largest bloody and heinous massacres in history that took place in the refugee camp in Rafah against defenseless civilians.” Who did not in any way possess the slightest capabilities of self-protection.
The international team of lawyers also requested, at the end of the submitted addendum, to accept all requests in the complaint submitted on December 6, 2023, and its Appendix No. (1) dated March 20, 2024, and Appendix No. (2) dated May 8, 2024, and this appendix. No. (3), in an attempt to stop the massacres and crimes committed by Israel against the defenseless civilians of the Palestinian people on their lands occupied in 1967, as the International Criminal Court, including the Office of the International Prosecutor, does not limit its mission only to holding the perpetrators accountable after the crimes and felonies have occurred. , but also stopping crimes and felonies, if that is available within its jurisdiction, a reality that can be implemented if the Office of the International Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court responds to all the requests in the complaint and its annexes.
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The international team of lawyers calls on ICC to issue “urgent” arrest warrants against all Israeli criminals.