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Palestinians threaten to approach ICC over
Israeli settlements
Thursday January 24, 2013 08:11:00 PM,
Agencies
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Doha:
Palestine has said continued Israeli
settlement in occupied areas near Jerusalem will leave them with
no choice but to take Tel Aviv to the International Criminal Court
(ICC) in the Hague.
Riad Malki, Palestinian foreign minister, said on Wednesday his
government's decision will largely depend on what the Israelis do
with the so-called "E1" area outside the Arab suburbs of East
Jerusalem.
Malki said allowing Jewish settlers into the so-called E1 zone
would be "trespassing the red lines".
The Palestinians are "absolutely not going to tolerate any
construction in that particular area", Malki told reporters after
addressing a UN Security Council meeting on the Middle East
conflict.
"We will wait to see how Israel will react from now on, especially
after the formation of the new government," he added.
E1 is one of the occupied areas where Israeli Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu's outgoing government has authorised thousands
of new settlement homes.
The Palestinians have previously suggested that bringing their
various disputes with Israel to the Hague-based court was an
option, but Malki's remarks on Wednesday were the most direct
threat his government has made against the Jewish state to date.
The Palestinians are yet to join the ICC, which prosecutes charges
of genocide, war crimes and other major human rights violations.
They must first apply to join the court, and once a member they
could refer Israel for investigation.
The Palestinians became eligible to join the ICC after the United
Nations General Assembly upgraded the Palestinians' status at the
world body in November last year from "observer entity" to
"non-member state," a move that was widely seen as a de facto
recognition of an independent Palestinian state.
After the November 29 vote - on the 65th anniversary of the
adoption of UN resolution 181 that partitioned Palestine into
separate Jewish and Arab states - Israel announced it would build
3,000 more settler homes in the West Bank and East Jerusalem,
which are areas the Palestinians want for a future state, along
with Gaza.
E1 covers some 12 square kilometres. It is considered particularly
important because it not only juts into the narrow "waist" of the
West Bank, but also backs onto East Jerusalem, where Palestinians
want to establish their capital.
Approximately 500,000 Israelis and 2.5 million Palestinians live
in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
The United Nations deems all Israeli settlements in the West Bank
to be illegal.
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