Katz: ICC preference is vast and opposite general law

Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz on Friday denounced a International Criminal Court arch prosecutor’s preference to open a full review into purported Israeli “war crimes” in Palestinian Authority (PA)-controlled territories.

“The preference of a arch prosecutor in a International Criminal Court is grave, vast and discordant to general law. It is improbable that a arch prosecutor takes office for herself and for a probity in transgression of a law and bends general law to fit Palestinian propaganda,” pronounced Katz.

“We reject this preference and call on other states to do so as well, and to stop a probity from apropos a domestic apparatus in a hands of a Palestinians in their quarrel opposite a existence of a State of Israel and a right to self-defense,” he added.

MK Ayelet Shaked (New Right) denounced a preference as good and wrote on Twitter, “The preference of a International Criminal Court in The Hague to open an review opposite Israel is a political, false and predicted decision, unfortunately. It has no management to do so and Israel contingency quarrel it with all a collection during a disposal.”

MK Yair Lapid (Blue and White) wrote, “The proclamation of a arch prosecutor in The Hague is a obey to a fibbing and horrible promotion of Palestinian terror. As someone who was a member of a cupboard and a member of a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, we can demonstrate to a fact that in a whole story of war, there was no army that did some-more than a IDF to equivocate harming trusting people.”

“Israel has 120 days to quarrel opposite a applicable parties so that no review can be opened. This requires a committed primary minister, a functioning government, a unfamiliar method that is a well-oiled chosen section – all a things that Israel now does not have. That’s accurately what we come to change. A supervision that works for adults and for a state,” he added.

Meanwhile, MK Zvi Hauser (Blue and White) who served as Cabinet Secretary between 2009 and 2013, tweeted, “This is a story behind today’s disaster in The Hague: In Apr 2015, Netanyahu chose to reason behind and not put genuine vigour on Abbas and a PA to refrain from fasten a International Criminal Court. They betrothed that it would be ‘okay’ and a ‘containment’ process was afterwards adopted with complacency. Today we start eating a decaying fruit of a chronological disaster in 2015. Bibi, take responsibility.”

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu responded to a preference progressing on Friday and pronounced it done a Hague-based court, that Israel has refused to pointer adult to given a origination in 2002, a “political tool” opposite a Jewish state.

“This is a dim day for law and justice. The ICC prosecutor has motionless not to boot undisguised a Palestinian explain opposite a State of Israel. It is a groundless and vast decision,” he said.

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