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ICC Chief Prosecutor Insists "Palestine" Is a State
(Times of Israel) Raphael Ahren - Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Fatou Bensouda on Thursday reiterated her position that Palestine is a state for the purposes of transferring criminal jurisdiction over its territory to The Hague. Dismissing the legal opinions of several states and dozens of international law scholars, Bensouda's view, laid out in a 60-page document, could pave the way for an investigation of alleged war crimes committed in the West Bank, Gaza and eastern Jerusalem. It is now up to a pre-trial chamber of three judges to rule on the matter. Israel has long argued that the ICC has no jurisdiction over the case, not least because there is no sovereign Palestinian state.