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SvennoJ on 22 May 2024
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ICC move ignores Israeli crimes against detainees: Palestinian rights group

Addameer says that while the decision made by the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor to hold Israeli officials accountable for alleged war crimes in Gaza marks a significant step, it still lacks substantial efforts to achieve comprehensive justice for all Palestinians, including prisoners.

“Despite the importance of this decision, the prosecutor completely neglected the crimes committed against Palestinian prisoners. He did not address at all the violations committed against Palestinian prisoners for many years, which have significantly escalated after October 7,” the rights group said in a statement.

Addameer said for decades, it has extensively documented crimes committed against Palestinian detainees, “all of which fall under the crimes listed by the prosecutor such as starvation, willfully causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or health, or cruel treatment, and especially persecution as a crime against humanity”.

It also documented an increase in the acts of torture and mistreatment of Palestinian detainees since the beginning of the war, including being subjected to beatings multiple times a day, sometimes until loss of consciousness, forced to stay in stress positions, threatened, including with death, sexual violence, or threats on their families, and regularly strip-searched.

The group has also “recently documented outrages upon personal dignity against Palestinian detainees, in particular humiliating and degrading treatments against detainees from Gaza, forcing them to bark, to curse themselves, and guards scooping food with their hands before giving it to prisoners”.

‘Israeli leaders will never even recognise Palestinian humanity’: CAIR

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) welcomed the recognition of the state of Palestine by Norway, Ireland and Spain, and called on the US government to stop blocking its full UN membership.

“The full entry of the state of Palestine into the community of nations is long overdue and should not be subject to the veto of our government or that of the far-right, openly racist and genocidal Israeli government,” said Nihad Awad, CAIR’s national executive director.

“All major Israeli leaders have made it very clear that they will never willingly accept a Palestinian state, or even recognise Palestinian humanity. It is now time for all nations, including our own, to recognise the state of Palestine.”

Federal laws that would penalise international bodies for recognising Palestine must be rejected and repealed, CAIR added.


Canada’s Green Party welcomes ICC prosector move

The party has said that the Canadian government’s response to the International Criminal Court prosecutor filing applications for arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, Israeli Defence Minister Gallant, and three Hamas officials, “falls woefully short of the steady defence of international rule of law and justice Canadians expect our country to espouse as a founding member of the ICC”.

“The government must at once stop playing into the false narrative of moral equivalence. In front of the law, everyone is and must remain equal. The parties are not measured against one another but against the law,” the party said in a statement.

“From now on, it is crucial that the government refrains from declarations and actions that might negatively interfere with the work of the ICC and ICJ and commits itself publicly to respecting and enforcing their decisions, whichever they may be.”

https://x.com/j_pedneault/status/1793359212556189706

They'll get my vote next election. Not that it will do much with our crap electoral system, yet I can't vote for the major sitting parties anymore. All crap.