Palestinian ICC bid unlikely to succeed: Analyst

This picture, taken on August 3, 2014, shows Palestinians walking past trails of blood following an Israeli military strike on a UN school in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. (© AFP)

Press TV has interviewed Hafsa Kara-Mustapha, a journalist and political commentator, in London, and Maxine Dovere, an author and journalist, in New York, to discuss the Palestinian Authority’s move to file a lawsuit against Israel at the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Kara-Mustapha says the record of the ICC is not very good, because the court has targeted leaders from Africa and countries of the Global South but has sheltered Western countries and their proxy regimes like Israel.

The political expert maintains that it is unlikely that the Palestinians’ case against Israel at the ICC will bear any fruit because of the US’s support for the regime.

The complaint is a significant step, but the ICC has a background of ignoring the rights of the oppressed Palestinians, she adds.

Kara-Mustapha says how seriously the ICC is willing to take the complaint from Palestinians depends on the international court itself; but the Palestinians have already been threatened to face a countersuit for their resistance against Israeli bombardments and the siege of Gaza.

For her part, Dovere says that hospitals and UN schools in the Gaza Strip were used as war centers during the Israeli war on the Palestinian enclave last summer; therefore, Israelis had the right to attack the civilian sites during the 2014 war on Gaza.

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