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Israel cancels PA foreign minister’s travel documents after visit to ICC

2021-03-22

[IsraelTimes] Riyad al-Maliki’s delegation questioned upon return from The Hague; PA Foreign Ministry charges move is retaliation for war crimes probe.

Paleostinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki was stripped of a special travel permit for senior Paleostinian officials and his entourage was questioned by Israeli intelligence on Sunday in an unusual incident following al-Maliki’s visit to the International Criminal Court.

The PA Foreign Ministry was informed by Israeli authorities that al-Maliki’s VIP travel pass had been canceled as the diplomat entered Allenby crossing from Jordan into the West Bank, senior PA Foreign Ministry official Ahmad al-Deek told The Times of Israel.

The VIP travel pass normally allows Paleostinian Authority officials and staff to pass through Israeli checkpoints with minimal friction, but according to al-Deek, al-Maliki’s entourage was questioned by the Shin Bet security service at the scene.

"The minister was held up for around half an hour, and his staff was delayed for around an hour, all told," al-Deek said.

The Shin Bet declined to comment. An Israeli official confirmed the incident, but stressed that canceling al-Maliki’s pass was a one-time decision.

"If this is the case, we hope that the Israelis clarify this to us," al-Deek said, noting that the PA Foreign Ministry had only been informed that the pass had been canceled.

The Israeli official declined to specify why al-Maliki’s pass had been revoked. The PA Foreign Ministry, however, said that Israel had cancelled the VIP permit due to Ramallah’s enthusiastic support for the ongoing ICC investigation.

"Israel is unable to solve cases through the law, but instead resorts to a policy of intimidation, sanctions and threats," al-Deek said later in statements to the official Paleostinian Authority WAFA news agency.

Al-Maliki was returning from a diplomatic visit to Europa
Europa

...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
that included a trip to The Hague to meet with outgoing ICC Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda.

Bensouda announced early in March that she would open an investigation into actions committed by Israel and the Paleostinians in the West Bank, Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
, and East Jerusalem in the summer of 2014, but excluding the terrorist murder of three Israeli teens that started that escalation.

Her announcement was immediately welcomed by the Paleostinian Authority and furiously condemned by Israel.

During al-Maliki’s visit to The Hague, the Paleostinian diplomat urged Bensouda to accelerate the pace of the investigation.

The announcement of the investigation came less than a month after the court ruled it had the jurisdiction to open a probe. A preliminary investigation to settle the justiciability question took more than five years.

On Thursday — the same day as al-Maliki’s meeting with Bensouda — the ICC confirmed that it had sent formal notices about its impending investigation into possible war crimes to both Israel and the Paleostinian Authority. The letters gave both parties one month to request the investigation’s deferral, the ICC said.

IDF chief condemns ICC probe, implies judges unfamiliar with terror tactics

[IsraelTimes] Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi condemns the International Criminal Court’s investigation into Israel over alleged war crimes and defends the Israeli military’s conduct.

"The values of the IDF and international law are not only intended to prevent harm to bystanders on the other side, they are equally aimed at enabling us to protect our citizens," he says.

Kohavi tells soldiers that the IDF will protect them from prosecution.

He also argues that the ICC is unfamiliar with the terrorist tactics that IDF soldiers encounter.

"The Hague is living in the old world. In the Middle East, there is a new area of terrorism," he says, adding that there’s a "gulf" between what is happening on the ground and how the judges at the ICC perceive those actions.

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