Israel to be prosecuted

News in Brief

Israel is going to be investigated by the international criminal court (ICC) for its war crimes during its 2014 attack on Gaza.

On 5 February, the ICC ruled that it did have jurisdiction in Palestine (which joined the court in 2015 as a UN observer state).

The chief prosecutor for the ICC, Fatou Bensouda, will now formally investigate alleged war crimes by both the Israeli military and Palestinian groups.

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the ‘biased’ ICC’s ruling as ‘pure antisemitism’.