Qatar participates in Arab seminar on ICC's role in prosecuting Israeli crimes in occupied Palestinian territories

Cairo: The State of Qatar participated in a seminar titled The Role of the International Criminal Court in Prosecuting Those Responsible for Crimes C...

Cairo: The State of Qatar participated in a seminar titled "The Role of the International Criminal Court in Prosecuting Those Responsible for Crimes Committed by the Israeli Occupation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories," held in the Arab League headquarters.

The seminar addressed monitoring and documenting Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people, prosecuting their perpetrators before international justice, and examining ways to follow up on the implementation of decisions by judicial bodies - the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the International Criminal Court (ICC), and advancing the application of international sanctions.

In this regard, the seminar highlighted the facts of the ongoing war of extermination in the Gaza Strip, and the crimes against humanity committed by the occupation, in light of the ongoing Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people since Oct. 7, 2023, and the systematic destruction and uprooting of all aspects of life that it has caused, including more than 250,000 martyrs, wounded, detained and missing persons, and the destruction of more than 80 percent of the Gaza Strip, with starvation being used as a weapon of murder and guardianship imposed on humanitarian work as an alternative to international bodies of jurisdiction, and the so-called aid centers that it sponsors being traps for the hungry, death traps and mass detention centers.

The seminar also addressed the situation in the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem, and the ongoing war crimes, terrorism, attacks, destruction of property, racial discrimination, ethnic cleansing, and forced displacement. The Israeli aggression in the West Bank since Oct. 7, 2023, has resulted in the martyrdom of approximately 1,000 citizens, the injury of more than 7,000 others, the arrest of 12,500, and the displacement of approximately 60,000 citizens.