ICC decision to prosecute Israel is “an achievement saturated in the blood of the Martyrs, wounded, and prisoners,” says PLO prisoners’ affairs official
Headline: “Abu Bakr: The ICC’s decision is a national achievement saturated in the blood of the Martyrs, the wounded, and the prisoners”
“Director of [PLO] Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs Qadri Abu Bakr praised the ICC judges’ decision from Friday, Feb. 5, 2020 (sic., 2021), according to which the ICC has jurisdiction over the Palestinian territories, which enables investigating the Israeli war crimes that are being committed against the Palestinian people.
Abu Bakr said that the decision is a great national achievement that is saturated in the blood of the Martyrs, the wounded, and the prisoners, and in the Palestinian people’s endless sacrifices. He called on the ICC to hurry and investigate the severe violations against the Palestinian people, its lands, and property, and [all the way to] prosecuting the leaders and criminals of the Israeli entity as war criminals…
Abu Bakr noted that throughout its years of activity the Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs has documented the Israeli occupation’s severe violations against the prisoners, which contradict international humanitarian law, the human rights conventions, and human values (sic., see note below regarding the PA libel on medical abuse of Palestinian prisoners).”