Will the UN heed its Rapporteurs' warning on Israel's settlement war crimes?
Ramona Wadi- The international community's distinguishing between Israel and its settlement expansion has kept the settler-colonial state immune from repercussions.
“The Israeli settlements are a presumptive war crime under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, and should be treated as such by the international community,” UN Special Rapporteurs, Michael Lynk and Balakrishan Rajagopal declared in a statement earlier this month. This goes a step further than the non-binding resolutions which UN officials usually rely on when chiding Israel for its settlement expansion.
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