Aja Criminal Court has jurisdiction over Palestinian territories

(ANSA) - The Hague, 05 FEB - The International Criminal Court has established jurisdiction over the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel. This step opens the way for the court prosecutor to start a war crime investigation. The International Criminal Court has "decided, a majority, that the territorial jurisdiction of the Court over the situation in Palestine, a member state of the Roman Statute of the International Criminal Court, extends to the territories occupied by Israel since 1967," reads a statement. demonstrated once again that the court is a political and not a judicial instance ", the reaction of Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu. "The Court - he said - ignores real war crimes and in its place persecutes the state of Israel with a strong democratic regime and which respects the rule of law". After recalling that Israel is not a member of the court, he added that the Hague decision "goes against the right of democratic countries to defend themselves from terrorism". (HANDLE).