Israel To Lobby Against ICC Amid Crimes Against Humanity Probe

"Israel considers itself as a state above international law."

Press TV: The apartheid Israeli regime has started lobbying member states of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to cut their funding to the body in retaliation for its bid to launch a probe into Israeli war crimes.
Hawkish Israeli Foreign Minister Avigador Lieberman announced on Sunday that the Tel Aviv regime hopes to undermine the funding of the tribunal, which is mainly drawn from the 122 member-nations, according to the size of their economies. "We will demand of our friends in Canada, in Australia and in Germany simply to stop funding it," Lieberman said in an interview with Israel Radio.

"This body represents no one,” he said, adding, “It is a political body."
The Israeli official also claimed that many countries “also think there is no justification for this body's existence," referring to the ICC.
This is while the Israeli regime, like the United States, is not a member of the ICC.
The development came following a Friday announcement by ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda that her office intends to conduct an “analysis in full independence and impartiality” into suspected war crimes carried out by Israeli military forces, including those committed during its Gaza offensive last summer, in which nearly 2,200 Palestinians, including 577 children, were killed.
More than 11,100 others, including 3,374 children, 2,088 women and 410 elderly people, were injured in the war.
Palestinians, meanwhile, have urged the ICC to also investigate Israel’s illegal settlement construction activities in the occupied Palestinian lands.

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