‘Israel’ threatens PA following cooperation with ICC probe
Occupied Palestine (QNN)- The Israeli newspaper Jerusalem Post on Monday cited an Israeli official as saying that the relationship between the occupation state and the Palestinian Authority will not be “business as usual,” in light of the Palestinian Authority’s successful appeal to have the International Criminal Court investigate Israel for war crimes.
“The Palestinian leadership has to understand there are consequences for their actions,” the Israeli official said.
The Israeli official threatened to cut all joint economic projects with the PA.
“For them to suppose that they can go to the ICC and it will be business as usual from Israel is a very questionable proposition”, he said.
The report comes only one day after the occupation state confiscated the VIP pass of PA Foreign Minister Riad Malki.
Commenting on the confiscation of the VIP pass, the Israeli official said that the occupation state is not limiting Malki’s freedom, however, it is taking away “extra privileges” that it had granted to him.
At the start of this month, the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor has opened a formal investigation into alleged war crimes in the Palestinian territories. Fatou Bensouda said the probe would cover events in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza Strip since June 2014.
