The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) has affirmed that six legal memorandums have been submitted to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague on Israel’s war crimes against the Palestinians in the embattled Gaza Strip and the occupied territories.
The ICC was also addressed seven times on the subject by a crew of Palestinian and international lawyers according to the PCHR.
This came during a discussion held in Gaza by the center with national and media figures on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories and the efforts made abroad to prosecute Israeli war criminals.
During the meeting PCHR director Raji al-Surani expressed hope that the court would take a clear and final decision in the current year with regard to accepting the lawsuits filed on behalf of Palestinian victims.
Surani said the ICC received legal papers on different war crimes committed by Israel as an occupying power against the Palestinians including its wars and blockade on Gaza and its human rights violations resulting from its settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territories.
