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International Criminal Court Rejects Palestinian Statehood Bid

10 Apr 2012

On Tuesday, 3 April 2012, after three years of deliberations, the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced it has finally reached a decision to reject the the Palestinian request to join. If it were accepted it would not only give the Palestinian Authority (PA) the possibility of inviting the ICC to prosecute Israelis or Palestinians accused of war crimes, Genocide, or crimes against humanity, but would have also forced the ICC to establish whether the Palestinian territories constitute a state.

Lia Tarachansky of The Real News files this report about the case, which includes a 2009 interview with Fatou Bensouda, the Deputy Prosecutor of the ICC.

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