Israel Urges Countries to stop ICC Funding Over Probe Into Gaza War

On Friday, the International Criminal Court propelled a preparatory investigation into charged atrocities carried out in the Palestinian regions.

ABUJA, January 18 (Ooduarere) – Israel urged a few ICC states, outstandingly Canada, Australia and Germany, to suspend financing of the International Criminal Court, after it dispatched a preparatory examination concerning claimed atrocities executed amid the war in the middle of Israel and Hamas in the Summer of 2014, Reuters reports, refering to Israel’s top ambassador.

“We will demand of our friends in Canada, in Australia and in Germany simply to stop funding [the ICC],”  Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said, as cited by Reuters.

Lieberman expressed that ICC speaks to nobody.“It is a political body,” he told Israel Radio. “There are … quite a few countries — I’ve already taken telephone calls about this — that also think there is no justification for this body’s existence,” he included.

On December 31, 2014, the president of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas signed the Rome Statute of the ICC in a move denounced by Israel. Palestine will formally get to be ICC part state on April 1.

Lieberman’s comments come after the ICC announced that it was launching a preparatory examination concerning affirmed atrocities submitted in the Palestinian regions in July-August 2014. “The Office will conduct its analysis in full independence and impartiality,”  ICC said in an announcement issued on Friday.

The test is “a procedure of analyzing the data accessible to achieve a completely educated determination on whether there is a sensible premise to move ahead with an examination as per the criteria created by the Rome Statute,” ICC clarified.

Lieberman called ICC choice “shameful”, saying its just objective was to “mischief Israel’s entitlement to guard itself against fear,” as cited by the Jerusalem Post. He guaranteed that Israel would attempt “to realize the disassembling of this court which speaks to lip service and offers driving force to fear.”

“It is a tragic irony that Israel, which has withstood thousands of terrorist rockets fired at its civilians and its neighborhoods, is now being scrutinized by the ICC. The place to resolve the differences between the parties is through direct negotiations, not unilateral actions by either side. We will continue to oppose actions against Israel at the ICC as counterproductive to the cause of peace,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, as cited by the Jerusalem Post.

In July 2014, Israel propelled Operation Protective Edge focusing on Hamas aggressors in the Gaza Strip. The fight killed in excess of 2,100 individuals, basically Palestinians, as per the United Nations. Of those, give or take 1,500 were distinguished as regular citizens, including 495 kids, as indicated by UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. In excess of 100,000 individuals were left homeless.