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Israel is not, however Palestine - as a UN observer state - is. This was enough for the ICC to declare jurisdiction. To my knowledge, this is also the grounds
by xg15 2y ago
Israel is not, however Palestine - as a UN observer state - is. This was enough for the ICC to declare jurisdiction.
To my knowledge, this is also the grounds on which the US and UK dispute jurisdiction: They say, no country in this conflict that they recognise is ICC signatory, so the ICC does not have jurisdiction.
(Not a lawyer, but this seems a pretty spurious and self-referential legal argument to me and in any case the UN accepted Palestine as an observer state, so I doubt that it would fly.)
- pyuser583 2y agoDoes Palestine, as recognized by the UN, include the West Bank? Because from what I hear, that “Palestine” doesn’t really exist. There’s Gaza, and there’s the West Bank.
- xg15 2y agoSee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_recognition_of_the_State_of_Palestine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_recognition_of_t... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_the_State_of_Palestine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_the_State_of_P... . Most countries which recognise Palestine as a state seem to recognise it in the 1967 borders, i.e. Gaza + West Bank + East Jerusalem. Not sure about the UN though.
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