Dr. Faisal Khazal, head of the international team of lawyers assigned by the Palestinian Bar Association to the International Prosecutor’s Office and the International Criminal Court, announced that the team submitted the sixth annex to the complaint submitted on December 6, 2023, the day before yesterday.

Khazal explained yesterday that “Appendix Six includes two topics. The first is raising the degree of criminal action in deliberately cutting off food aid from civilians in the Gaza Strip with the intention of starving them and inflicting famine on them with the intention of harming, punishing and torturing them, as well as taking their lives, until it is to the degree of a criminal offense punishable.” It is subject to all international laws without exception, and is rejected by all humanitarian principles, so that it is equivalent to the criminal offense of intentionally killing unarmed civilians who do not possess the minimum capabilities of self-defense.”

He added: “We confirmed in Appendix Six that Israel’s withdrawal from its signature on the International Criminal Court Law, and its indication in the withdrawal decision that it no longer desires membership, and that thus there is no longer any reason for it to carry out its obligations towards the International Criminal Court, is This does not apply to this complaint or the crimes referred to, as the crimes complained of occurred on the Palestinian territories occupied in 1967, and this means the lands of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the rest of the lands that fall on the 1967 borders from the Palestinian side, which is a member. In the International Criminal Court.

He continued: "Therefore, Israel's withdrawal from the agreement does not have any impact on this complaint due to the spatial circumstance or the involvement of the defendants in the crimes. Rather, it lies at the heart of the jurisdiction and jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court."