Hundreds of lawyers filed criminal complaints against Israel and Hamas in The Hague

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298 lawyers and 117 NGOs They presented it in International Criminal Court The Hague filed a genocide lawsuit against Israel for the indiscriminate bombings in Gaza, which they defined as genocide. Chief among these is French lawyer Gilles Devers, who is known to have had the European courts annul the fishing agreement signed between Morocco and the EU due to the occupation of Western Sahara.

Signatories demand investigation of “everyone” vile crimes They define the massacre carried out by Hamas on October 7 as “the murder of babies, children and women”. 52 pagesThe paper, accessed by this newspaper, also demands that Israel’s response be examined “in terms of the crime of genocide and other crimes foreseen in the founding text of the ICC.”

Two years ago, the International Criminal Court (ICC) declared that it had jurisdiction to investigate war crimes committed in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and in Israel since the war against Gaza in 2014. The ICC has already told this newspaper that “special team“To investigate these alleged crimes. The Attorney General, Karim KhanHe recently emphasized his competence, but claimed a lack of resources to justify the difference between the speed of action in the case of war crimes committed by Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Palestine case.

At least 10,000 Palestinians, mostly children, have been killed in Israeli attacks in response to past Hamas attacks. 7 OctoberAt least 1,400 Israelis have died at the hands of militants of the Islamist group, which is considered a terrorist by the EU.

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