Legal mechanism, like one in Syria, could have assisted in investigation and prosecution of lower-level criminal perpetrators in the occupied Palestinian territories who the ICC is unlikely to focus on
A UN Human Rights Council (HRC) resolution that would have established a mechanism to help with the investigation of crimes committed in the occupied Palestinian territories was watered down following backroom pressure from the US, a US official and a source briefed by a European diplomat told Middle East Eye.
The final wording of the resolution, adopted by the council this week, invites the UN General Assembly only “to consider establishing” such a body.
That was then. This is now. I’m not saying things changed, but that they can change. It requires courage, strength, hope and fortitude.