The Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, Ahmed Abul-Gheit, and the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda, discussed a number of issues, headed by the court, towards opening an investigation into Israeli war crimes, and the accession of the Arab League to the list of supporters of opening investigations, while Palestine called for speeding up the litigation procedures, She confirmed her refusal to politicize the court.
Abul-Gheit expressed - during the meeting held on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference - his appreciation for the Prosecutor's approach to the administration of justice and the maintenance of the principle of impunity, regardless of political considerations, and commended the plaintiffs keenness to follow the procedural path in this case, and its expressed belief There is a reasonable basis for believing that war crimes and crimes against humanity have been committed by Israel against the Palestinian people, confirming the Arab League's support and support for the prosecutor's work.
The Secretary-General of the League of Arab States also met with the Secretary-General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, and discussed a number of regional and international issues with him, according to a statement distributed by the Arab League. The Secretary-General of NATO submitted an invitation to the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States to visit the NATO headquarters in Brussels To discuss support for the channels of consultation and dialogue regarding regional challenges and crises facing the Middle East.
For his part, the Palestinian Prime Minister, Muhammad Shtayyeh, stressed the rejection of the attempts to politicize the International Criminal Court, calling for speeding up the litigation procedures in it, especially after the court announced its intention to open investigations against Israeli war crimes in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Shtayyeh demanded, during his meeting with Bensouda, yesterday, that the international judicial system should be protected from the pressures that some countries are exposed to in order to obstruct his work.
Regarding the deal of the century, the Prime Minister expressed the complete rejection of this deal, which he emphasized violates all international resolutions and covenants, and does not meet the minimum legitimate rights of the Palestinian people.
Shtayyeh also met a delegation of 21 members of the American Congress, headed by Senator Lindsey Graham, and briefed them on the reasons for the Palestinian rejection of the "deal of the century", stressing that the solution to the Palestinian issue should be in accordance with the references of international legitimacy and United Nations resolutions, and that the "deal" did not It meets the minimum legitimate rights of the Palestinian people.
Shtayyeh stressed that any future solution or launching peace talks must be through an international working group, and not through the United States of America alone, pointing out the seriousness of the decisions issued by the current American administration towards the Palestinian issue, and an attempt to liquidate its components, the most important of which is the refugee issue, in addition The impact of the "Deal of the Century" on the region and its destabilization.
The Palestinian Prime Minister cautioned against Israel's plans to annex the Jordan Valley and areas in the West Bank, which would eliminate any opportunity to establish a contiguous Palestinian state.
In a related context, the Legal Committee at the People's Congress of Palestinians abroad signed a legal power of attorney for a law office in London, with the aim of submitting a legal memo on Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people, in response to a request by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to open an investigation into Israeli war crimes committed and still in the territories The Palestinian occupied in 1967. The Popular Congress affirmed that Palestine was and still is a sovereign state and that the Palestinian people are the owners of this sovereignty over the land of Palestine over the ages, pointing out that “this sovereignty does not negate nor diminish the occurrence of occupation or the absence of the authority of bankruptcy Clay on their land ».
He added that the decision to investigate the crimes of the occupation is the first step towards holding the occupation accountable for all its crimes and its continuous violations of international laws and laws, calling on the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to expand its investigations into all the crimes of the occupation in Palestine, including administrative arrests especially for children and women, and the transfer of detainees outside the territories Occupied, exile and extrajudicial executions, intentional killing of defenseless civilians and demonstrators, shelling of homes, schools and hospitals, attacks on places of worship, worshipers, journalists, medical personnel and ambulances.
The Popular Congress called on the Palestinian leadership to invest in this decision and prosecute the crimes of the Zionist occupation against the Palestinian people in all of Palestine, calling for intensifying Palestinian efforts in this direction and not being satisfied with a complaint or investigation in one of the crimes of the occupation, just as the Popular Congress valued all the declared positions of Palestinian authorities And non-Palestinian, which supports this step and the call to continue it.
The Popular Congress noted the need for there to be legal support for the International Criminal Court to carry out its work in the best way, by providing information, documents and evidence that would assist in completing a comprehensive, complete and transparent investigation of all the crimes of the occupation and submitting them to trial.
- Palestine calls for speeding up the procedures of litigation, and confirms its rejection of attempts to politicize the court.