UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday (6/1), to make sure the Palestinians will be accepted as a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC) as of 1 April.
With such status, the Palestinians could drag Israeli military officials to an international tribunal on charges of war crimes.
Palestine insert documents ratified the Rome Statute, the ICC treaty formation, as the last stage receives international war crimes court's jurisdiction.
In a statement on the official website of the UN Pact (https://treaties.un.org), Tuesday (6/1), the UN Secretary General announced that it has received the documents by stating that " the Statute shall apply to the Palestinian state on 1 April 2015 " according to the procedure of the ICC. Ban Ki-moon said "he was acting in the capacity as guard" the instrument of ratification.
Document Palestine joining ICC President Mahmoud Abbas signed a day after the UN Security Council resolution rejecting the establishment of a Palestinian state, December 30. Join the ICC is part of the Palestinian strategy to pressure Israel to withdraw from Palestinian territories and recognize a Palestinian state.
In documents filed with the ICC, the Palestinians recognize the jurisdiction of the ICC to investigate alleged war crimes during the Gaza War, from July to August.
Palestinian Ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour, last week, said, Palestine will also ask about the justice of Israeli policies of Jewish settlements in the Palestinian territories, which he calls including "war crimes", according to the Rome Statute.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday, insists will not let soldiers or Israeli officials to court the ICC in The Hague, Netherlands. Israel responded by freezing step Palestine Palestinian tax revenues of 127 million US dollars.
Oslo Agreement buried
United States, which opposes the freezing of Palestinian tax revenues by Israel, also threatened to stop aid would be $ 400 million for Palestine.
According to analysts, this latter situation showing the Middle East conflict entered a new phase. "The peace process that was born in Oslo has been dead and buried. Now we are at the beginning of a new phase, "said Karim Bitar, Middle East analyst in Paris, France, referring to the Peace Agreement in 1993.
Under the agreement that formed the Palestinian Authority, Palestinians and Israelis agreed to coordinate the security of the Israeli-occupied territories. Palestinians have threatened to halt cooperation.
In the heat of the Palestinian and Israeli confrontation, CNN news release pursued political leader of Hamas, Khaled Meshaal, from Qatar. Citing sources close to Hamas, the US television network reported, Meshaal and a number of Muslim Brotherhood members were deported from Qatar and is expected to Turkey.
Hamas denied the news. "Not really what is reported by some media about the departure of brother Khaled Meshaal of Doha," said Ezzat al-Rishq, a Hamas official.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Qatar could not be confirmed about the news. Meshaal (58) living in exile since his family left the West Bank while the War of 1967. In 1997, he escaped assassination targets Israeli secret agent in Jordan.
In Israel, the country's military court to punish prison three times a lifetime for members of Hamas, Hussam Kawasmeh, who was charged with kidnapping and killing three Israeli youth in the West Bank, June.
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