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Experts Say Israel's 'Booby-Trap' Attacks in Lebanon Violate International Law (www.commondreams.org)

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"These attacks violate the human right to life, absent any indication that the victims posed an imminent lethal threat to anyone else at the time."

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Turkey didn't petition the ICC, you're thinking of the ICJ.

The ICJ is not a criminal court. It cannot arrest or prosecute individuals. It can issue legal opinions regarding disputes between states, but it cannot enforce its opinions. For example, in 2014 it ruled that Japan could not hunt whales in Antarctica yet Japan is still hunting whales there today.

Regardless, the ICJ has not yet issued a final opinion regarding Israel.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

They joined the icc petition and participate in it, I didn't say they started it.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailysabah.com/politics/turkish-lawyers-submit-evidence-to-icc-on-israels-war-crimes/news/amp

They are also on the icj petition, yes.

Yet another thing I didn't say and doesn't actually matter, neat.

Also they just released decision.

https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/09/19/end-israel-occupation-palestine-un-vote/

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yet another thing I didn't say

You said May 2. That article is from November.

In May, the Turkish government petitioned the ICJ to join South Africa as co-plaintiffs. Not the ICC.

In November, Turkish lawyers (not Turkey itself) provided evidence (not petitioned the court) to the ICC. The Turkish government cannot petition to join ICC prosecutors, prosecutors work alone.

they just released decision.

That's a different ICJ decision against Israel, initiated by the UN in 2022. That decision does not address the invasion of Gaza, because it hadn't happened yet.

The Gaza genocide case before the ICJ right now is separate, this is the one that that Turkey petitioned to join in May, and this case still has no final decision.