\n{A Palestinian diplomat on Monday announced that a planned visit to Palestine later this month by a delegation from The Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) would be postponed.}<\/p>\n
\u201cThe ICC has informed the Palestinian government of the postponement of the delegation\u2019s visit \u2013 initially slated for the end of July \u2013 to next fall,\u201d Nabil Abu Zened, Palestinian ambassador to the Netherlands, told Palestinian public radio.<\/p>\n
The court, he added, had attributed the move to technical and procedural reasons.
\nAbu Zened went on, however, to suggest the delay may have been due to Israeli pressure.<\/p>\n
Last month, Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki submitted a first batch of documentary evidence to ICC Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, which, he said, included proof of \u201ccrimes and violations committed by Israel in the Palestinian territories.\u201d<\/p>\n
The evidence include files related to Palestinian political prisoners languishing in Israeli jails, illegal Israeli settlement construction in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, and documentary evidence of war crimes committed by Israel during last year\u2019s military onslaught on the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n
In the summer of last year, Israel carried out a weeks-long offensive against the blockaded Gaza Strip with the stated aim of stopping rocket fire from the Palestinian enclave.<\/p>\n
Over 2,160 Palestinians, mostly civilians, were killed \u2013 and some 11,000 injured \u2013 during the offensive, which finally ended with a cease-fire deal signed in August.<\/p>\n
World Bulletin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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