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“This court is politicized and obsessed with the persecution of Israel, the United States and other democracies that respect human rights, but it closes its eyes to the world’s greatest human rights abusers, including the terrorist regime in Iran,” Netanyahu said in a Press conference.
He said the ICC was making fictitious charges against Israel for Jewish settlements in the Palestinian territories.
The US administration is also not satisfied with an investigation by the Hague-based court into possible war crimes committed during the protracted conflict in Afghanistan.
In late 2017, the Gambian chief prosecutor, Fatu Bensouda, asked the judges to give him permission to investigate alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Afghanistan by the Taliban, the Afghan government and international allied forces, including US troops.
Last year, the United States administration revoked the visa issued to the prosecutor, demanding that the ongoing investigation be terminated.
However, in March, the judges allowed the investigation to continue, reversing an earlier decision to reject Bensoud’s initial request to open an investigation into alleged war crimes in Afghanistan.
The United States has not joined the ICC in 2002 and does not recognize its jurisdiction in the United States. Washington claims that the ICC is a threat to its national sovereignty. The administration of former President George W. Bush has actively urged other countries not to recognize this court.
The European Union on Thursday expressed “serious concern” about Trump’s latest ambition.
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