TUNISIA (PIC)–Tunis’ Wafa Party announced on Sunday its intention to sue the occupation state for the killing of Khalil al-Wazir known as Abu Jihad in the Tunisian capital city of Tunis 25 years ago.
Abderraouf al-Ayadi head of the Tunisian Wafa Party confirmed to the PIC that the legal action will be presented only before a Tunisian court especially that the crime was committed in the Tunisian lands stressing that only the PLO is able to sue Israel in international courts.
Al-Ayedi called in a statement to the PIC for revealing all the secret files regarding this crime in which some Tunisian security officials are involved.
The announcement came after Israel’s daily Yedioth Ahronot reported on Thursday that the Israeli spy agency Mossad and the Israeli General Staff Reconnaissance Unit Sayeret Matkal planned a joint operation that led to the assassination of the PLO official.
Al-Ayedi also pointed out to the 1949 Geneva Conventions that oblige states to search for and try those suspected of grave breaches regardless of the suspect’s home country or the site of the crime and regardless of their nationality before its own courts or hand them over to another High Contracting Party concerned.
Wazir was the number two man in the PLO and played an important role in directing the 1987-1994 Palestinian uprising Intifada against the Israeli occupation.
