Report: New ICC prosecutor might go ahead in suing Israel
Defence counsel Karim Khan ( L) Kenya s Deputy President William Ruto (R) reacts as he sits in the courtroom before their trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague in 10 September 2013. [MICHAEL KOOREN/AFP via Getty Images] February 15, 2021 at 9:34 am
The new Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, who was elected on Friday to replace Fatou Bensouda in July, might go ahead and probe potential Israeli crimes in the occupied territories,
Al-Wattan Voice reported yesterday.
As a new prosecutor, one of his tasks is to decide the next steps on the probe into war crimes in Afghanistan and those of Israel which were carried out during the 2014 Israeli offensive on Gaza, as well as the construction of illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.