The Special Rapporteur of the United Nations on the right to adequate housing, Balakrishnan Rajagopal, has called for establishing a new international tribunal if the International Criminal Court (ICC) does not take swift measures regarding the Israeli war crimes in Gaza.In a post on X platform, Rajagopal wrote: ‘What has happened in Gaza is the result of what I call institutionalized impunity. Impunity for occupation. For a war of extermination. Genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. If the ICC does not act very soon, we need a special tribunal for Gaza and action by States’.If the ICC does not act any time soon, there will be a need for an international tribunal for Gaza and action on the part of states, Rajagopal added.Libyan Ambassador to the Netherlands, Ziad Daghim, has so far, said that his country and a group of states led by Palestine submitted a lawsuit against Israel to the ICC. The lawsuit aims to prosecute the Israeli army over mass killings it perpetrates in Gaza, where over 20,000 Palestinians have been martyred since the start of the Israeli war on Gaza Strip, 70 percent of them were children and women, in addition to starving Gaza population and depriving them of water, medicine and electricity.Meanwhile, the French lawyer Gilles Dever mobilized a contingent of lawyers from all over the world to represent the persecuted Palestinians before the ICC, affirming that the lawsuit lodged to the ICC has made a remarkable progress.The ICC Prosecutor ordered the appointment of investigators to verify the crimes in question, that were perpetrated by the Israeli army against the Palestinian people, prior to opening the case lodged on Nov. 8. The Hague-based ICC received appeals from five countries on Nov. 17 to investigate into the war crimes perpetrated by Israel in Gaza Strip and the West Bank. The Prosecutor of ICC Karim Khan confirmed that he has an appeal from South Africa, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Comoros and Djibouti to investigate into the situations unfolding in the Palestinian territories. (QNA)
