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| Palestine to become member of International Criminal Court | |
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| The UN secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, has confirmed that Palestine will officially become a member of the International Criminal Court on 1 April, the UN press office said on Wednesday. | |
| The Palestinians delivered documents to UN headquarters on Friday documents to join the Rome Statute of the ICC and other international treaties, in a move that has heightened tensions with Israel and could lead to cuts in US aid. | |
| The official announcement of the date of the Palestinian accession to the ICC, in the form of a letter from Ban, was posted on a UN website. | |
| Under ICC rules, Palestinian membership would allow the court, based in The Hague, to exercise jurisdiction over war crimes committed by anyone on Palestinian territory, without a referral from the UN Security Council. Israel, like the United States, is not a party to the Rome statute, but its citizens could be tried for actions taken on Palestinian land. | |
| The Palestinian government signed the statute on 31 December, a day after a bid for independence by 2017 failed at the UN security council. | |
| The Palestinians, who have been locked in a bloody conflict with Israel for decades, seek a state in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem – lands Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East War. | |
| Momentum to recognise a Palestinian state has built since Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas succeeded in a bid for de facto recognition of Palestinian statehood at the UN General Assembly in 2012, which made Palestinians eligible to join the ICC. |