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Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on Thursday asked King Philip VI for help to stop the investigation of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on war crimes in Palestine . At the beginning of the interview that both have held in the residence of the Israeli president, he has expressed concern about the possibility that the Hague court accuses Israeli soldiers of committing "terrible crimes." "They are our children and our grandchildren," he said, after remembering that the Israeli Army is not professional but of forced recruitment. Rivlin has justified Israel's military performance to stop the launch of missiles on its cities from the Gaza Strip and has ensured that its army is careful not to cause civilian casualties and investigates when possible excesses occur.
The King has avoided responding to an uncomfortable request for Spain, which is a founding country and a strong defender of the international criminal court. The prosecutor of the court, Fatou Bensouda, said last December to have "rational evidence" of the commission of war crimes by both parties in Palestine since June 2014 (including the Operation Margin Protection against Hamas in Gaza, shooting from the wall surrounding the strip and illegal settlements) and announced the opening of an investigation. The procedure is pending to define its geographical scope, since Israel does not submit to the jurisdiction of the ICC, but Palestine, whose internationally recognized territory covers the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza.
Although the process still has a long bureaucratic process, Israel fears that it will conclude with international arrest warrants that would limit the ability of its leaders to travel outside the country, so it has launched a worldwide diplomatic campaign to curb it. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened this week to impose sanctions on the Court if he continues with what he considers "a frontal attack on the right of a democracy to defend itself and the right of the Jewish people to live in their ancestral land of Israel" .
Rivlin has met with Felipe VI after meeting with the president of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, and the Italian president, Sergio Mattarella, and before receiving the Prince of Wales, all attending the V World Holocaust Forum held this Thursday at the Yad Vashem Museum in Jerusalem. In the presence of the new Minister of Foreign Affairs, Arancha González Laya, the Israeli president has said that he knows that the Spaniards are “very friendly to the Palestinians” and has asked for his help so that they understand that the State of “Israel is a fact and the only home the Jews have in the world. ”
The King has reiterated Spain's commitment against hate speech , xenophobia and anti-Semitism and recalled the approval of a legal framework to combat it, in addition to facilitating the recovery of nationality by the descendants of Sephardic Jews expelled more 500 years old Felipe VI has justified the lack of bilateral contacts in recent years claiming that the two countries have lived a "somewhat complex political context", alluding to the long stage with functioning governments, but "now begins a new cycle," he added Israel, however, must still hold its third elections in early March in less than a year. "And it may not be the last," Rivlin joked.
Felipe VI, who on Wednesday was the only foreign president who intervened in the dinner offered by Rivlin, has not spoken in the central session, although he has sat in the front row of the event held at the Holocaust Museum, next to the kings of Holland and Belgium Before beginning the ceremony, he has talked with Macron, Rivlin and Prince Charles, among other guests. The Foreign Minister has approached to greet Pence, in what has been the first contact of the new Spanish Government with the US Administration.
https://elpais.com/internacional/2020/01/23/actualidad/1579775707_751346.html
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on Thursday asked King Philip VI for help to stop the investigation of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on war crimes in Palestine . At the beginning of the interview that both have held in the residence of the Israeli president, he has expressed concern about the possibility that the Hague court accuses Israeli soldiers of committing "terrible crimes." "They are our children and our grandchildren," he said, after remembering that the Israeli Army is not professional but of forced recruitment. Rivlin has justified Israel's military performance to stop the launch of missiles on its cities from the Gaza Strip and has ensured that its army is careful not to cause civilian casualties and investigates when possible excesses occur.
The King has avoided responding to an uncomfortable request for Spain, which is a founding country and a strong defender of the international criminal court. The prosecutor of the court, Fatou Bensouda, said last December to have "rational evidence" of the commission of war crimes by both parties in Palestine since June 2014 (including the Operation Margin Protection against Hamas in Gaza, shooting from the wall surrounding the strip and illegal settlements) and announced the opening of an investigation. The procedure is pending to define its geographical scope, since Israel does not submit to the jurisdiction of the ICC, but Palestine, whose internationally recognized territory covers the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza.
Although the process still has a long bureaucratic process, Israel fears that it will conclude with international arrest warrants that would limit the ability of its leaders to travel outside the country, so it has launched a worldwide diplomatic campaign to curb it. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened this week to impose sanctions on the Court if he continues with what he considers "a frontal attack on the right of a democracy to defend itself and the right of the Jewish people to live in their ancestral land of Israel" .
Rivlin has met with Felipe VI after meeting with the president of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, and the Italian president, Sergio Mattarella, and before receiving the Prince of Wales, all attending the V World Holocaust Forum held this Thursday at the Yad Vashem Museum in Jerusalem. In the presence of the new Minister of Foreign Affairs, Arancha González Laya, the Israeli president has said that he knows that the Spaniards are “very friendly to the Palestinians” and has asked for his help so that they understand that the State of “Israel is a fact and the only home the Jews have in the world. ”
The King has reiterated Spain's commitment against hate speech , xenophobia and anti-Semitism and recalled the approval of a legal framework to combat it, in addition to facilitating the recovery of nationality by the descendants of Sephardic Jews expelled more 500 years old Felipe VI has justified the lack of bilateral contacts in recent years claiming that the two countries have lived a "somewhat complex political context", alluding to the long stage with functioning governments, but "now begins a new cycle," he added Israel, however, must still hold its third elections in early March in less than a year. "And it may not be the last," Rivlin joked.
Felipe VI, who on Wednesday was the only foreign president who intervened in the dinner offered by Rivlin, has not spoken in the central session, although he has sat in the front row of the event held at the Holocaust Museum, next to the kings of Holland and Belgium Before beginning the ceremony, he has talked with Macron, Rivlin and Prince Charles, among other guests. The Foreign Minister has approached to greet Pence, in what has been the first contact of the new Spanish Government with the US Administration.
https://elpais.com/internacional/2020/01/23/actualidad/1579775707_751346.html
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