Last weekend, Israel received a letter from the International Criminal Court detailing the scope of the investigation it decided to launch into the situation in Palestine.
The Palestinian News Agency (WAFA) indicated today - citing Israeli media - that Israel has 30 days to respond to the letter of the International Criminal Court.
Earlier this month, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda, announced the launch of an investigation into the situation in Palestine. The Palestinian Authority welcomed the decision, while Israel strongly condemned it and requested its revocation.
For its part, Israeli Channel 13 reported that the message has been received, and that the Israeli National Security Council is currently working on drafting a response to it.
The channel pointed out that the message came in one and a half pages, and briefly presented the three main areas that it intends to cover, which are the 2014 Israeli war on Gaza, the Israeli settlement policy, and the Great March of Return (2018) protests in Gaza.
The channel said that Israel is expected to use its response as an opportunity to articulate once again the argument that the ICC has no jurisdiction to hear the case.
She added that Israeli officials hope that the jurisdiction debate will succeed in delaying the case, until the outgoing International Criminal Court Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, is replaced next June, and replaced by British Representative Karim Khan, who Israel hopes will be less hostile or may cancel the investigation. .
It is noteworthy that the International Criminal Court issued on the sixth of last February a decision stating that "the court's territorial jurisdiction includes the lands that Israel occupied in 1967, namely Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, given that Palestine is a party to the Rome Statute of the Criminal Court." International ".