Israel says will ‘engage’ with ICC on crime probe

JERUSALEM - Israel will “engage” with the International Criminal Court probing alleged war crimes, but only to question the tribunal’s right to investigate Palestinian complaints, an official said Thursday.

“We’ve decided to engage with the ICC, the engagement will be limited solely to the question of authority” to deal with Palestine, the official told AFP on condition of anonymity.

The Palestinian Authority last month submitted a first dossier of evidence to the ICC, following a decision by the court’s chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to launch a preliminary probe.

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Israel, which has not signed up to the ICC, had rejected Bensouda’s “absurd decision” with Prime Minister Benjamin NetanyahThe probe, ordered in January, was set up to establish whether there was enough evidence for a full-blown war crimes investigation into last year’s conflict in the Gaza Strip between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas.
u saying the ICC was ignoring “international law and agreements, under which the Palestinians don’t have a state.”

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