Germany on Friday filed a petition with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in which it requested to be "a friend of the court" (amicus curiae) in deliberations that will examine if the court has jurisdiction to rule whether Israel committed “war crimes” against Palestinian Arabs, Haaretz reports.
In its petition, Germany backed Israel's argument that the court's jurisdiction does not extend to Palestinian Authority-assigned areas, as “Palestine” is not a state that fulfills all the criteria under general international law, although it has joined the ICC's Rome Statute.
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