International Criminal Court says it has jurisdiction in Palestinian territories

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4. Israeli settlements may face new scrutiny by ICC

In-depth: While any probe will focus on the 2014 Gaza war and border protests that began in 2018, international law makes Israel’s settlement construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem vulnerable to even tougher scrutiny

Associated Press|
Published: 02.08.21

Israel’s ongoing settlement building in the West Bank, starting half a century ago, could be much harder to defend.
Some 700,000 Israelis now live in settlements built in the West Bank and east Jerusalem. Settlements are widely viewed as illegal based on the Geneva Convention principle that an occupying power is barred from transferring its population to territories captured in war. Population transfers are listed as a war crime in the ICC’s founding treaty, the Rome Statute.
“The settlement issue is really the biggest issue. This is the elephant in the room,” said Yuval Shany, an expert on international law at the Israel Democracy Institute.

Shany said the court ruling means that Israeli settlement policy could come under hard-to-defend scrutiny. “This exposes basically the entire Israeli political elite that has been part of a settlement policy to criminal proceedings before the court,” he said. “This is a significant setback.”

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