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5 April 2012
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As organisations dedicated to the promotion and protection of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), the Palestinian Council of Human Rights Organisations (PCHRO) is deeply disappointed with the decision of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) not to proceed with the preliminary examination into crimes committed in Palestine since 2002. In effect, this decision has placed the responsibility for such violations firmly in the political arena of the United Nations (UN) with the likely result that, once again, the interests of Palestinian victims will be sidelined indefinitely in favour of political expediency. As a direct response to Israel’s Military Operation codenamed “Cast Lead,” which resulted in the killing of over 1,400 Palestinians, on 22 January 2009 Palestine submitted a declaration under Article 12(3) of the Rome Statute to the Office of the Prosecutor. The submission requested the exercise of the jurisdiction of the Court “for the purpose of identifying, prosecuting and judging the authors and accomplices of acts committed on the territory of Palestine since 1 July 2002.” Pursuant to Article 15 of the Rome Statute, the Prosecutor initiated a preliminary examination in order to determine whether there were reasonable grounds to proceed with an investigation...
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