2024-05-27 07:49:04
AA / Ankara / Nur Asena Ertürk
The EU’s Excessive Consultant for International Affairs and Safety Coverage stated on Monday that it was unacceptable to characterize the Worldwide Felony Court docket prosecutor as “anti-Semitic”.
“We should respect the work of that physique and let the courts determine on this initiative with out coercion,” Josep Borrell instructed reporters exterior the EU’s International Affairs Council in Brussels.
He additionally referred to as for respect for the work of the Worldwide Felony Court docket, saying the physique “has been severely intimidated and accused of anti-Semitism”.
“I discover the accusation of anti-Semitism in opposition to the ICC prosecutor fully unacceptable,” Borrell burdened.
On Might 20, Worldwide Felony Court docket Prosecutor Karim Khan requested the court docket to subject arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Protection Minister Yove Galante on the grounds that they had been accountable for conflict crimes and crimes in opposition to humanity. Affordable grounds for prison legal responsibility.
Netanyahu stated the request for the arrest warrant was “a brand new type of anti-Semitism transferred from campuses to the ICC.”
Concerning the ruling of the Worldwide Court docket of Justice, the United Nations’ highest court docket in The Hague, Netherlands, Borrell stated the worldwide group should “demand implementation” of the court docket’s ruling.
“Within the coming hours we noticed Israel proceed the navy operations it was requested to halt […] this morning, […] Greater than 30 folks within the refugee camp had been killed within the assault. It is actually a dilemma,” he added.
Borrell additionally stated he would suggest “reactivating the civilian mission of our border system” in Rafah throughout the Brussels assembly.
“We had been requested to provoke this mission […] We have now to succeed in an settlement with everybody concerned. We can’t obtain this with out the robust dedication of the Palestinian Authority,” Borrell defined.
Israel attacked a Palestinian displacement camp and a number of other houses within the southern Gaza city of Rafah on Sunday, killing not less than 35 folks and injuring dozens extra, medical sources and Palestinian officers stated.
The Gaza media workplace stated the assault occurred close to the Tal Sultan logistics base of the United Nations Company for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).
Since Hamas’s cross-border assault on October 7, 2023, Israel has killed not less than 35,984 Palestinians within the Gaza Hall.
Israel’s navy operations have diminished a lot of the enclave to rubble, inflicting a critical humanitarian catastrophe for the enclave’s 2.3 million residents, most of whom are actually homeless and threatened by famine.
The assault got here regardless of an Worldwide Court docket of Justice order calling on Israel to halt its offensive in opposition to Rafah.
* Translated from English by Mounir Bennour.
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