Mexico Joins Chile in Referring Israel to the ICC – BREAKING

By Palestine Chronicle Employees  

In an unprecedented transfer, one other South American authorities, Mexico, joined Chile in referring Israel to the Worldwide Legal Courtroom (ICC) over doable crimes in Gaza.

Santiago’s transfer got here on January 9, and was thought of a vital step, because of the political significance of Chile within the southern hemisphere, and in addition because of the ongoing deliberation of an identical case launched by South Africa on the Worldwide Courtroom of Justice (ICJ).  

In a assertion on Thursday, the Mexican International Ministry asserted that the ICC is the right discussion board to find out prison duty.

Mexico’s referral was based mostly on, in response to the assertion, “quite a few studies from the United Nations that element many incidents that might represent crimes beneath the ICC’s jurisdiction.”

“The motion by Mexico and Chile is because of rising concern over the most recent escalation of violence, notably in opposition to civilian targets, and the alleged continued fee of crimes beneath the jurisdiction of the Courtroom,” the Mexican Ministry of International Affairs introduced within the assertion.

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Chile’s Assertion

Chile had first introduced its intention to refer Israel to the ICC on January 9. 

The Chilean Ambassador to the United Nations, Paula Narváez, had then stated in a assertion initially supplied in Spanish that Chile would ship details about the state of affairs within the Gaza Strip to the prosecutor’s workplace of the ICC, with the intention of investigating doable “(warfare) crimes dedicated within the occupied Palestinian territories”.

Narváez added that “all of the events concerned, in addition to the worldwide neighborhood collectively, should work in order that this warfare ends and {that a} strategy of actual and fruitful dialogue begins that enables us to maneuver in direction of the existence of two States, recognizing the best of Israel and Palestine to coexist in peace, inside safe, mutually agreed upon and internationally acknowledged borders.”

Joint Efforts 

Within the case of Mexico, the federal government stated that it was carefully following the South Africa’s case earlier than the Worldwide Courtroom of Justice (ICJ), the place Pretoria has argued that Israel is finishing up a genocide in opposition to the Palestinians in Gaza. 

It is very important observe that Pretoria has additionally referred to as for a probe on the ICC to analyze alleged warfare criminals in Israel. 

Whereas the ICC appears into warfare crimes allegations in opposition to people, the ICJ settles disputes amongst states. 

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Mexico is hoping that related stress on the ICC might result in ending the Israeli warfare.

“(We) belief that these actions… can pave the way in which for a direct ceasefire and contribute to shifting towards lasting peace within the area based mostly on an answer of two states which coexist inside safe and internationally acknowledged borders,” the Mexican International Ministry assertion stated. 

Since October 7, almost 100,000 Palestinians have been killed, injured, or are ‘lacking’ beneath the rubble of the largely destroyed Gaza Strip. 

(The Palestine Chronicle)