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0 pointsaegypti10mo ago0 comments

ICC signatories:

- Europe

- LATAM

- subsaharan Africa

ICC nonsignatories:

- US

- China

- India

- Russia

- Turkey

- Israel

- Pakistan

- Egypt

- Saudi Arabia

Hubris is imagining a situation in which The Hague Act is ever tested in the first place!

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frankharv10mo ago

Meanwhile Ursula "lost" her phones text messages and is laughing at oversight.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2x7gzdr01o

jamesblonde10mo ago

Whataboutism

polski-g10mo ago

Israel never agreed to abide by the ICC and they're still trying to claim authority over Israeli actions? That's crazy.

dlubarov10mo ago

Yeah, the ICC considers itself to have jurisdiction over crimes committed by non-parties if they're within the territory of a party to the Rome Statute.

Here the argument goes that the State of Palestine is a party, and Gaza is somehow its territory, even though it has never controlled or governed Gaza.

runarberg10mo ago

The State of Palestine has two government at the moment which govern separate territories, just like Libya, Yemen, or China. Neither government of Palestine disputes the ICCs jurisdiction over Gaza. And unlike China there have been numerous attempts to unify the two governments, most of them were stopped by Israel.

I think the ICCs argument of jurisdiction is entirely reasonable, and consistent with how the court has ruled previously.

EDIT: Since this is Hacker News and we like nerdy details, I’ve linked below the 2021 ruling that established it’s jurisdiction of Palestine. The ruling was 3-1 and explicitly included the West Bank including East Jerusalem, and Gaza.

https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/icc-pre-trial-chamber-i-issues-...

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