{"id":19030,"date":"2018-10-19T02:23:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T02:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19030"},"modified":"2018-10-19T02:23:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T02:23:16","slug":"un-envoy-warns-gaza-is-imploding-economy-in-freefall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19030","title":{"rendered":"UN envoy warns Gaza is imploding, economy in freefall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1390091\/middle-east\" readability=\"67\">\n<p>\nTHE HAGUE: The International Criminal Court&#8217;s chief prosecutor has issued a warning that if Israel goes ahead and destroys a Palestinian Bedouin village in the West Bank that could constitute a war crime.<\/p>\n<p>\nIsrael&#8217;s Supreme Court recently rejected a final appeal against plans to demolish the village, Khan Al-Ahmar.<\/p>\n<p>\nICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said in a written statement that &#8220;evacuation by force now appears imminent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nShe added: &#8220;It bears recalling, as a general matter, that extensive destruction of property without military necessity and population transfers in an occupied territory constitute war crimes&#8221; under the Rome Statute treaty that established the ICC.<\/p>\n<p>\nIsrael says Khan Al-Ahmar was built illegally and has offered to resettle its residents a few kilometers away. Palestinians and other critics say the demolition aims to displace Palestinians in favor of Israeli settlement expansion.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe ICC has been conducting a preliminary inquiry since 2015 in the Palestinian territories, including Israel&#8217;s settlement policy and crimes allegedly committed by both sides in the 2014 Gaza conflict. Israel is not a member of the court and does not accept its jurisdiction.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Israeli crimes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\nHowever, Israeli forces could face charges if they are suspected of committing crimes on Palestinian territories as the court has accepted the &#8220;State of Palestine&#8221; as a member.<\/p>\n<p>\nBensouda&#8217;s written statement also said she is &#8220;alarmed by the continued violence, perpetrated by actors on both sides, at the Gaza border with Israel.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nThere have been weeks of escalating violence along the border.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE HAGUE: The International Criminal Court&#8217;s chief prosecutor has issued a warning that if Israel goes ahead and destroys a Palestinian Bedouin village in the West Bank that could constitute a war crime. Israel&#8217;s Supreme Court recently rejected a final appeal against plans to demolish the village, Khan Al-Ahmar. ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":19031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}