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THE HAGUE: The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court took a major step Friday toward opening an investigation into alleged war crimes in the occupied Palestinian territories, asking judges exactly what territory a future investigation could cover.
The announcement ended years of preliminary investigations into alleged crimes by both Israeli forces and Palestinians and signaled that Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda is preparing to open a formal probe.
It drew swift condemnation from Israel, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calling it 鈥渁 dark day for truth and justice.鈥�

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The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs welcomed it as 鈥渁 long overdue step to move the process forward toward an investigation, after nearly five long and difficult years of preliminary examination.鈥�
While Israel is not a member of the court and does not recognize its jurisdiction, Palestinians have been recognized as a member state and requested an investigation. Even though Israel is not a member of the court, its citizens could face international arrest warrants if the ICC investigation indicts them for war crimes.
鈥淚 am satisfied that there is a reasonable basis to proceed with an investigation into the situation in Palestine,鈥� Bensouda said in a statement.
She said she is 鈥渟atisfied that ... war crimes have been or are being committed in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip.鈥�
Bensouda said she has now asked judges to outline the geographic scope of an investigation.
鈥淪pecifically, I have sought confirmation that the 鈥榯erritory鈥� over which the Court may exercise its jurisdiction, and which I may subject to investigation, comprises the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Gaza,鈥� she said.
Netanyahu said Bensouda鈥檚 decision 鈥渉as turned the International Criminal Court into a political tool to delegitimize the State of Israel. The prosecutor has completely ignored the legal arguments we presented to her.鈥�
At the Palestinians鈥� request, Bensouda opened a preliminary investigation in 2015 into alleged violations of international law following the 2014 war between Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip.
With the peace process at a standstill for more than a decade, the Palestinians have in recent years sought to hold Israel accountable for alleged violations of international law, including the construction and expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem.
Israel seized those territories along with the Gaza Strip in the 1967 Mideast war. The Palestinians want all three to be part of their future state.
In a legal opinion released Friday, Israel鈥檚 Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit said the Palestinians do not meet the criteria of statehood because they do not have sovereignty over defined borders. Citing past peace agreements, Israel said the two sides had agreed to resolve their territorial dispute in negotiations.
鈥淏y approaching the ICC, the Palestinians are seeking to breach the framework agreed to by the parties and to push the Court to determine political issues that should be resolved by negotiations, and not by criminal proceedings,鈥� the legal opinion said.
The Palestinians insisted they are a fully-fledged member of the court and that the court has jurisdiction.