A sweep of arrests of Turkish police officers conducted Monday – Turkish news outlets reported the detained officers were arrested on charges of illegal wiretapping – is set to deepen concerns that Ankara is again cracking down on government workers it fears are aligned with U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen. The arrests...
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Shurat Hadin, the Israel Law Center, has targeted three more Palestinian officials for war crimes prosecutions in the International Criminal Court, The Times of Israel reported Monday. The three officials named in the complaints filed with the International Criminal Court (ICC) are “PA Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah, Abbas’s deputy; minister...
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Angered by Palestinian steps to join the International Criminal Court, Israel may seek to prosecute senior Palestinians for war crimes, according to an Israeli official, The Jerusalem Post reported on January 3. The Israeli official emphasized that Palestinian leaders themselves”ought to fear legal steps” after this action. “Israel is weighing the possibilities...
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On January 1, Fatah, the largest Palestinian political movement, celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of its first terror attack, a January 1, 1965 attack on Israel’s national water carrier in the Israeli city of Beit She’an. Fatah has published a number a number of images to celebrate the occasion. Imagery and wordplay...
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Victims of Palestinian terror should bring their claims to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in response to the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) application to join the court, Shurat Hadin, Israel Law Center, wrote in a Facebook post on Wednesday. Today, Mahmoud Abbas signed the Rome Treaty to join the ICC. The day has arrived...
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday signed on to nearly two dozen international agreements, including the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, setting up a showdown with the United States that The New York Times assessed could include “severe sanctions” from Washington and triggering accusations that the Palestinians...
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