Turkish Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Sedat Önal and his Iranian counterpart, chaired political consultations on October 8 in Ankara, this according to Turkey’s Foreign Affairs Ministry.
The ICC Insists it Has Jurisdiction to Probe Israeli Crimes in The Palestinian Territories Published February 7th, 2021 - 07:35 GMT In this file photo taken on August 21, 2014 smoke trails mark the path of Palestinian missiles fired from the north-east of Gaza City. The International Criminal Court s ruling that it has jurisdiction over events in the Palestinian territories opens the way to an investigation of alleged war crimes committed in the 2014 Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza. The 50-day war, which devastated the coastal enclave and left 2,251 dead on the Palestinian side, mostly civilians, and 74 on the Israeli side, mostly soldiers, has already been the subject of a five-year preliminary ICC probe and a string of critical reports. ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP