Israel to tell ICC it does not recognise court’s authority

Last month, the ICC started investigating possible crimes committed by Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem since 13 June 2014. Based in The Hague, the ICC was set up in 2002 to bring to justice those responsible for the worst crimes. It has the power to act where a state is “unable or unwilling genuinely” to do so itself. The issue threatens further to damage already strained relations between the two sides. Israel rejects the claim that it has carried out war crimes and claims that the ICC lacks the authority to open an investigation against it.