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28 December 2016 by AFP
Israel pushing for more settler homes despite UN vote Israel could advance plans this week for thousands more settlement homes in annexed east Jerusalem in defiance of a landmark UN resolution demanding an end to such activity. It would mark the first such approvals since Friday's UN [...]
25 December 2016 by AFP
UN Israel vote to make peace negotiations 'much harder': Trump US President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday that the UN vote demanding Israel halt settlements in Palestinian territory would make a peace deal "much harder," but said it could happen anyway. "The big loss yesterday for Israel i [...]
24 December 2016 by AFP
UN demands end to Israeli settlements after US abstains The UN Security Council on Friday demanded that Israel halt settlements in Palestinian territory, after the United States refrained from vetoing a resolution condemning its closest Middle East ally. In a rare and momentous step, t [...]
23 December 2016 by AFP
UN Security Council moves to vote on Israeli settlements The UN Security Council is expected to vote Friday on demanding Israel halt settlements at the request of four countries who stepped in to push for action after Egypt put the draft resolution on hold. New Zealand, Malaysia, Senega [...]
22 September 2016 by AFP
Israel destroying two-state solution hopes: Abbas to UN Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas told the UN General Assembly on Thursday that Israel's settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank was destroying any hope of a two-state solution. Abbas, who has been Palestinian president fo [...]
21 September 2016 by AFP
Obama flirts with Mideast peace push in final months When he came to power, he appeared to imply it was one of his priorities. In reality, US President Barack Obama has made less headway than many of his peers trying to achieve Mideast peace. Now, with just four months remaining in [...]
8 September 2016 by Aude Marcovitch, correspondent in Tel Aviv
Israel forced to cooperate with the International Criminal Court A team from the International Criminal Court (ICC) is expected to visit Israel soon, at the request of Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda. This is a first in relations between Israel – which is not an ICC member State – and the Court. But [...]
24 August 2016 by Pierre Hazan
100 Years after Balfour Declaration, Palestinians Threaten to Sue Can the law correct the colonial past? That is the hope of Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority, who plans to sue Britain in an international court for the Balfour Declaration nearly a century ago which gave a “na [...]
15 August 2016 by Human Rights Watch
Israel/Palestine: Palestinian Rights Defenders Threatened (Jerusalem) – New anonymous death threats have been made against staff members of a Palestinian human rights organization advocating an investigation by the International Criminal Court into alleged war crimes in Palestine. The Ga [...]
6 June 2016 by Human Rights Watch
Palestine: ICC Should Open Formal Probe Impartial Justice Needed as Occupation Enters 50th Year As the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza entered its 50th year, Human Rights Watch called today on the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor to open a form [...]
25 May 2016 by Pierre Hazan
Israel and Palestine Pursue War of Remembrance A day of joy or a day of mourning? The battle of remembrance remains as intense as ever between Israelis and Palestinians. Israelis have just celebrated the 68th anniversary of their State, as Palestinians remembered the Nakba, th [...]
9 December 2015 by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo.net Head of Project, associate professor at Neuchâtel University
Non-violence the best weapon in Palestine, says Ali Abu Awwad Palestinian activist Ali Abu Awwad spent four years in an Israeli prison. In 1993 he went on hunger strike for 17 days demanding to see his mother, who was also in jail. His protest worked, and he realized that non-violence can be [...]
25 June 2015 by Stéphanie Maupas, ICC correspondent in The Hague
PALESTINE ENGAGES INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT AS LAST RESORT The Palestinian Authority (PA) on Thursday carried out its first act of cooperation with International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, submitting a confidential file of several hundred pages in support of its compl [...]
22 June 2015 by AFP
'War crimes' likely by both sides in 2014 Gaza war: UN report Both Israel and Palestinian militants may have committed war crimes during last year's Gaza war, a widely anticipated United Nations report said Monday, decrying the "unprecedented" devastation and human suffering.The Commission o [...]
28 May 2015 by Pierre Hazan
ICC, GAZA AND THE RULES OF WAR In becoming a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC) this past April, the Palestinian Authority intends to pursue its policy of isolating the Israeli state. How better to achieve this than to watch what is perhaps the hi [...]