Wednesday, 14 April 2021, 7:02 am
The Israeli government’s position regarding an
impending investigation by the International Criminal Court
of alleged war crimes committed in occupied Palestine has
been finally declared by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu.
“It will be made clear that Israel is a
country with rule of law that knows how to investigate
itself,” Netanyahu said
in a statement on April 8. Subsequently, Israel
“completely rejects” any accusations that it has
committed war crimes.
But it won’t be so easy for
Tel Aviv this time around. True, Israel is not a party to
the Rome Statute, according to which the ICC was