In a new submission to the International Criminal Court, jailed Palestinian human rights lawyer Salah Hammouri called on the court to bring urgency to its investigation of war crimes committed by Israel in the occupied Palestinian territory. 

Dan Shapiro, Obama’s former ambassador to Israel, continues to serve as a mouthpiece for the Israeli government with this laughable claim: “Israel… has a long record of conducting investigations of actions of its own military… it’s quite professional.”

“The Palestinians have never had this kind of a card in their sleeve, that actually might restrain Israel.” Human rights attorney Michael Sfard says that there is “absolutely no way” for the ICC to evade an investigation of Israeli settlements as a war crime.