“In its history, ICC has never convicted a Western country or a country with “power,” Asst. Proff. Mehmet Demirel said / Photo: Reuters Archive.
Criticising Israel for escalating violence against Palestinians, Fakhri says: “It’s no longer a logic of rational calculation, but it’s logic of violence and war, also happening from multiple angles.” Fakhri says that even the UN has been paying the human cost of Israel’s relentless carpet bombing of Gaza.
“The General Assembly’s resolutions aren’t necessarily binding, but that speaks volumes. Most governments take a particular position, shifting political and public understanding of the path forward for peace,” he says. Palestine’s accession to the Rome Statute in 2015 exemplifies this, granting the ICC authority over crimes on its territory related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
And he adds,"In other words, the ICC's decisions are effective. What Israel has done so far, the civilian deaths, are many times more than what Russia has done in Ukraine."