{The Palestinian Authority said it had asked the International Criminal Court (ICC) to set a date for submitting the case files pertaining to the settlements and war crimes lawsuits against Israel to the court.}<\/p>\n
“I filed a request two days ago to the ICC to set a date so we can submit the case files of the settlements and Israel’s war crime lawsuits,” Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki told Palestinian radio.<\/p>\n
“We’re waiting for a date to be scheduled, and it might be in the middle of next month,” al-Maliki said, adding that he “will head to The Hague for this [submitting the case files] once a date is set”.<\/p>\n
Last month, Palestine officially joined the ICC after The Hague-based tribunal approved its accession bid.<\/p>\n
In January, Palestinians formally delivered the UN papers ratifying the Rome Statute \u2013 the legal document establishing the court \u2013 with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon acting as “depository.”<\/p>\n
The move came after an Arab draft resolution at the UN General Assembly seeking a deadline for ending Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories failed to win the nine votes needed to pass.<\/p>\n
Shortly later, Abbas applied for Palestinian membership in 18 international treaties, including the Rome Statute.<\/p>\n
The ICC was established in 1998 as a court of last resort to prosecute the most heinous offenses \u2013 such as war crimes and crimes against humanity \u2013 in cases where national court systems had failed.<\/p>\n
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