Shurat HaDin Law Center files complaint at International Criminal Court against PLO leaders Jibril Rajoub, Majid Faraj and Palestinian PM Rami Hamdallah • Move follows Palestinian appeal to join the ICC to pursue war crime charges against Israel.
Shurat HaDin's founder and director, attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner
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Israel-based advocacy group Shurat HaDin on Monday filed a war crimes complaint against three top Palestinian officials it accuses of terrorism, torture and civil rights violations.
The Shurat HaDin Law Center filed the complaint with the International Criminal Court in The Hague against Palestine Liberation Organization officials Jibril Rajoub, Majid Faraj and Rami Hamdallah, the current Palestinian prime minister. The suit follows similar complaints the group filed against Hamas political leader Khaled Mashaal and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
...the Israeli group's motion came on the heels of the Palestinians' application to the ICC, made with the explicit purpose of pursuing war crimes charges against Israel. The gambit has left the Palestinian Authority vulnerable to their own set of potential war crimes allegations over rocket and terrorist attacks by Hamas on Israeli population centers and other violence against Israeli targets.
Shurat HaDin's founder and director, attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, said the Palestinians must understand that approaching the ICC is "a double-edged sword."
...the ICC said the Palestinians had notified it that they would accept ICC jurisdiction as of June 13, 2014. The choice of date appears aimed at including allegations against Israel relating to the Gaza war but avoiding charges against the Palestinians over the kidnapping and killing of three Israeli teenagers the previous day, June 12.
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