Former Israeli premier Ehud Olmert would probably face arrest on war crime charges if he visited Britain, a leading British newspapers has quoted a lawyer as saying.
"Neither Olmert nor Tzipi Livni, the foreign minister during the Cast Lead offensive, and a member of Israel's war cabinet, would enjoy immunity from prosecution for alleged breaches of the Geneva conventions," the Middle East editor of The Guardian , Ian Black, quoted Daniel Machover as saying.
Machover has been involved in intensifying legal work after the controversial Goldstone report on the three-week conflict. "Neither are ministers any longer," he explained.
"Prosecutions of Israeli political and military figures remain likely despite the failure to obtain an arrest warrant for Ehud Barak, the defense minister, when he visited the UK earlier this month.. In the Barak case, a magistrate accepted advice from the Foreign Office that the minister enjoyed state immunity and rejected an application made on behalf of several residents of the Gaza Strip".
This is while the United Nations General Assembly is scheduled to meet on November 4 in a bid to consider a UN report, which accuses Israel of war crimes, as well as crimes against humanity, during the weeks-long onslaught on the Gaza Strip.
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