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I came to defend Israel,’ says immigrant cop who shot attackers-French-born policewoman who stopped stabbings at Tapuah Junction hailed as a hero for preventing ‘a big disaster’-By Times of Israel staff October 30, 2015, 5:55 pm
A young French immigrant serving in the Border Police was praised by commanders and local leaders on Friday after shooting two Palestinian assailants as they tried to stab her and a second policeman in the West Bank.The head of Samaria Regional Council, Yossi Dagan, who arrived at the scene and spoke with the corporal, said that the officer had told him: “This is why I came to Israel. To defend the nation.”The two men attempted to stab Cpl. A and her partner as they inspected vehicles at the Tapuah Junction. According to a police statement, the attackers arrived at the intersection on a motorcycle, dismounted and advanced towards the officers with knives in hand.Dagan called Cpl. A “a hero” for preventing “a big disaster.”“I realized that if I hesitated for a second the policeman beside me would no longer be alive,” Cpl. A told the press afterwards. “I didn’t think twice. I cocked my weapon and shot them.”One of the Palestinians was killed while the other was critically injured, according to police. The Border Policemen were not hurt.Border Police commander Uzi Levi, head of forces in Judea and Samaria, commended the officers’ actions, saying they responded with level-headed professionalism to end the incident “quickly and without casualties.”
ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST
1 CHRONICLES 21:1
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
GENESIS 12:1-3
1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I (GOD) will shew thee:
2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3 And I will bless them that bless thee,(ISRAELIS) and curse (DESTROY) him that curseth thee:(DESTROY THEM) and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
ISAIAH 41:11
11 Behold, all they that were incensed against thee (ISRAEL) shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing;(DESTROYED) and they that strive with thee shall perish.(ISRAEL HATERS WILL BE TOTALLY DESTROYED)
ISRAELS TROUBLE
JEREMIAH 30:7
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;(ISRAEL) but he shall be saved out of it.
DANIEL 12:1,4
1 And at that time shall Michael(ISRAELS WAR ANGEL) stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people:(ISRAEL) and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation(May 14,48) even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS,CHIP IMPLANTS ETC)
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)
Police shoot one Palestinian, run over second in Ramallah clashes-Rioter shot by troops while throwing firebomb; second attacker hit by police jeep as he attempts to stab officer-By Times of Israel staff and Judah Ari Gross October 30, 2015, 4:36 pm 5
Two Palestinians were moderately wounded Friday afternoon during fierce clashes with Border Police in the West Bank city of Ramallah.A police unit shot and wounded a Palestinian who was about to throw a Molotov cocktail. As medical officers dispensed first aid to the wounded Palestinian, a second Palestinian approached the first responders with a sharp object in his hand. Identifying a clear danger to the officers on the scene, the commander in a jeep ordered his driver to get closer in order to prevent a stabbing, police spokeswoman Luba Samri said.The driver struck the second Palestinian, wounding him (footage here). Both Palestinians were moderately hurt, and no Israeli forces incurred any injuries, the police said.The incident came shortly after two people were injured in a stabbing attack in Jerusalem.According to police, an Israeli man in his 20s sustained moderate injuries when he was stabbed near the Ammunition Hill light rail station by a 23-year-old resident of Kfar Akeb in East Jerusalem. A second man was injured by police gunfire when security forces tried to subdue the attacker, who was shot and critically wounded.“From our initial investigation we believe that a terrorist armed with a knife arrived at the station and stabbed a civilian, injuring him. He then attempted to stab another civilian, but did not succeed,” Samri said.“Light rail guards who were on the scene, other civilians and Border Police officers who were nearby subdued the terrorist. As a result of the gunfire, an additional civilian was injured, with a gunshot wound to the leg,” Samri said.The victim with the stab wounds was treated on the scene by paramedics before being taken to Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center. According to Magen David Adom, he was in stable condition. The second victim was lightly to moderately injured by the gunfire, MDA said.The incident was the first in Jerusalem since October 17 when a Palestinian teenager tried to stab Border Police officers in Armon Hanatziv, and the second attack of the day Friday.Earlier, two Palestinian men attempted to stab a group of Border Police officers at the Tapuah Junction in the West Bank and were shot by security forces. One died of his wounds and the other was in critical condition, according to police.The Border Police troops were not hurt in the attempted attack.The incidents were the latest in over 60 separate attacks against Israeli civilians and security forces over the past month. Ten Israelis have been killed and dozens wounded in a spate of terror attacks by mainly Palestinian assailants since October 1.
Police shoot one Palestinian, run over second in Ramallah clashes-Rioter shot by troops while throwing firebomb; second attacker hit by police jeep as he attempts to stab officer-By Times of Israel staff and Judah Ari Gross October 30, 2015, 4:36 pm 5-the times of israel
Two Palestinians were moderately wounded Friday afternoon during fierce clashes with Border Police in the West Bank city of Ramallah.A police unit shot and wounded a Palestinian who was about to throw a Molotov cocktail. As medical officers dispensed first aid to the wounded Palestinian, a second Palestinian approached the first responders with a sharp object in his hand. Identifying a clear danger to the officers on the scene, the commander in a jeep ordered his driver to get closer in order to prevent a stabbing, police spokeswoman Luba Samri said.The driver struck the second Palestinian, wounding him (footage here). Both Palestinians were moderately hurt, and no Israeli forces incurred any injuries, the police said.The incident came shortly after two people were injured in a stabbing attack in Jerusalem.According to police, an Israeli man in his 20s sustained moderate injuries when he was stabbed near the Ammunition Hill light rail station by a 23-year-old resident of Kfar Akeb in East Jerusalem. A second man was injured by police gunfire when security forces tried to subdue the attacker, who was shot and critically wounded.“From our initial investigation we believe that a terrorist armed with a knife arrived at the station and stabbed a civilian, injuring him. He then attempted to stab another civilian, but did not succeed,” Samri said.“Light rail guards who were on the scene, other civilians and Border Police officers who were nearby subdued the terrorist. As a result of the gunfire, an additional civilian was injured, with a gunshot wound to the leg,” Samri said.The victim with the stab wounds was treated on the scene by paramedics before being taken to Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center. According to Magen David Adom, he was in stable condition. The second victim was lightly to moderately injured by the gunfire, MDA said.The incident was the first in Jerusalem since October 17 when a Palestinian teenager tried to stab Border Police officers in Armon Hanatziv, and the second attack of the day Friday.Earlier, two Palestinian men attempted to stab a group of Border Police officers at the Tapuah Junction in the West Bank and were shot by security forces. One died of his wounds and the other was in critical condition, according to police.The Border Police troops were not hurt in the attempted attack.The incidents were the latest in over 60 separate attacks against Israeli civilians and security forces over the past month. Ten Israelis have been killed and dozens wounded in a spate of terror attacks by mainly Palestinian assailants since October 1.-Like us on Facebook
Palestinian rioters clash with troops on Gaza border-At least 20 protesters said hurt after attacking soldiers with rocks, Molotov cocktails in several locations-By Times of Israel staff October 30, 2015, 4:24 pm 1
In what has become a weekly occurrence, violent Palestinian protests were reported along the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip on Friday afternoon, following the end of Muslim prayers.Riots that included the use of firebombs, rock throwing and tire burning were reported by Israeli security forces in several locations. The army said troops were acting to disperse the demonstrators.Palestinian officials said at least 20 people were hurt, most of them from tear gas.Egged on by Hamas rulers, the protestors have been routinely demonstrating near the Gaza border in solidarity with West Bank Palestinians, and have broken through the border fence with Israel on several occasions.During a visit to the IDF’s Gaza Division head quarters in the Western Negev last week, military officials told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the security situation at the Israel-Gaza border was “under control.”The riots came as security forces also clashed with Palestinian rioters in the West Bank. At least two Palestinians were wounded in confrontations with Border Police in Ramallah on Friday afternoon, while two Israelis were wounded in an earlier stabbing attack in Jerusalem.
Abbas to meet ICC prosecutor as terror attacks persist-At The Hague, PA president, Fatou Bensouda to discuss ‘grave Israeli escalation,’ according to Palestinian officials-By AFP and Times of Israel staff October 30, 2015, 3:09 pm 6
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will meet on Friday with ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda at The Hague, Palestinian officials said, amid the current wave of Palestinian terror against Israeli civilians and security forces in Israel and across the West Bank.It will be Abbas’s first meeting with the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court since the Palestinian Authority sparked controversy by joining the tribunal in January, an official with the Palestinian mission in The Hague told AFP.Abbas, who is in the Netherlands as part of a European tour, would visit Bensouda “in the context of the grave Israeli escalation in occupied Palestine,” the official said, asking not to be identified. Israel has accused Abbas of helping fuel the terror surge, in part by peddling “lies” about purported Israeli plans to change the status quo at Jerusalem’s contested Temple Mount holy site.Ten Israelis have been killed in the spate of near-daily attacks since October 1 and dozens have been wounded. Over 60 Palestinians have been killed in the latest round of violence, the majority of them while carrying out stabbing attacks against Israelis. The rest died in clashes with Israeli military forces.There was no immediate confirmation from the ICC that Bensouda was meeting with Abbas.Earlier this year, the Palestinians formally asked the ICC to investigate Israel for alleged war crimes during last summer’s Operation Protective Edge in Gaza, drawing Jerusalem’s ire.Israel lost 66 soldiers and six civilians, and a Thai agricultural worker, in the month-long conflict, while the Palestinian death toll surpassed 2,100, according to Hamas officials in Gaza. Israel said about half of the Gaza dead were gunmen and blamed Hamas for all civilian deaths because it operated against Israel from residential areas, placing Gazans in harm’s way.Bensouda has officially opened a preliminary inquiry into the Palestinian allegations to see whether there is sufficient evidence to proceed to a more formal investigation.To support their case, Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki handed over two files to the ICC in June as evidence of its allegations.One file dealt with alleged Israeli crimes committed in Gaza during the 50-day war in July and August last year.The other file delved into the situation in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, including “information about the issue of Palestinian prisoners,” the Palestinian mission in The Hague said in June.Abbas has also since called on Bensouda to probe the July firebombing of a Palestinian home blamed on Jewish extremists, in which a toddler and his parents died.Maliki was to accompany Abbas for Friday’s talks, and would address the press afterwards, the Palestinian official told AFP, refusing to be drawn further on the purpose of the visit.Israel, which has not signed up to the ICC, has opposed the Palestinian attempt to trigger a full investigation for war crimes, but Jerusalem has said it will engage with prosecutors.The Palestinian move also angered the United States which denounced it as “counterproductive.”The ICC was set up in 2002 to investigate and try those responsible for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, where national authorities cannot or will not prosecute.
I came to defend Israel,’ says immigrant cop who shot attackers-French-born policewoman who stopped stabbings at Tapuah Junction hailed as a hero for preventing ‘a big disaster’-By Times of Israel staff October 30, 2015, 5:55 pm
A young French immigrant serving in the Border Police was praised by commanders and local leaders on Friday after shooting two Palestinian assailants as they tried to stab her and a second policeman in the West Bank.The head of Samaria Regional Council, Yossi Dagan, who arrived at the scene and spoke with the corporal, said that the officer had told him: “This is why I came to Israel. To defend the nation.”The two men attempted to stab Cpl. A and her partner as they inspected vehicles at the Tapuah Junction. According to a police statement, the attackers arrived at the intersection on a motorcycle, dismounted and advanced towards the officers with knives in hand.Dagan called Cpl. A “a hero” for preventing “a big disaster.”“I realized that if I hesitated for a second the policeman beside me would no longer be alive,” Cpl. A told the press afterwards. “I didn’t think twice. I cocked my weapon and shot them.”One of the Palestinians was killed while the other was critically injured, according to police. The Border Policemen were not hurt.Border Police commander Uzi Levi, head of forces in Judea and Samaria, commended the officers’ actions, saying they responded with level-headed professionalism to end the incident “quickly and without casualties.”
ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST
1 CHRONICLES 21:1
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
GENESIS 12:1-3
1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I (GOD) will shew thee:
2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3 And I will bless them that bless thee,(ISRAELIS) and curse (DESTROY) him that curseth thee:(DESTROY THEM) and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
ISAIAH 41:11
11 Behold, all they that were incensed against thee (ISRAEL) shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing;(DESTROYED) and they that strive with thee shall perish.(ISRAEL HATERS WILL BE TOTALLY DESTROYED)
ISRAELS TROUBLE
JEREMIAH 30:7
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;(ISRAEL) but he shall be saved out of it.
DANIEL 12:1,4
1 And at that time shall Michael(ISRAELS WAR ANGEL) stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people:(ISRAEL) and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation(May 14,48) even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS,CHIP IMPLANTS ETC)
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)
Police shoot one Palestinian, run over second in Ramallah clashes-Rioter shot by troops while throwing firebomb; second attacker hit by police jeep as he attempts to stab officer-By Times of Israel staff and Judah Ari Gross October 30, 2015, 4:36 pm 5
Two Palestinians were moderately wounded Friday afternoon during fierce clashes with Border Police in the West Bank city of Ramallah.A police unit shot and wounded a Palestinian who was about to throw a Molotov cocktail. As medical officers dispensed first aid to the wounded Palestinian, a second Palestinian approached the first responders with a sharp object in his hand. Identifying a clear danger to the officers on the scene, the commander in a jeep ordered his driver to get closer in order to prevent a stabbing, police spokeswoman Luba Samri said.The driver struck the second Palestinian, wounding him (footage here). Both Palestinians were moderately hurt, and no Israeli forces incurred any injuries, the police said.The incident came shortly after two people were injured in a stabbing attack in Jerusalem.According to police, an Israeli man in his 20s sustained moderate injuries when he was stabbed near the Ammunition Hill light rail station by a 23-year-old resident of Kfar Akeb in East Jerusalem. A second man was injured by police gunfire when security forces tried to subdue the attacker, who was shot and critically wounded.“From our initial investigation we believe that a terrorist armed with a knife arrived at the station and stabbed a civilian, injuring him. He then attempted to stab another civilian, but did not succeed,” Samri said.“Light rail guards who were on the scene, other civilians and Border Police officers who were nearby subdued the terrorist. As a result of the gunfire, an additional civilian was injured, with a gunshot wound to the leg,” Samri said.The victim with the stab wounds was treated on the scene by paramedics before being taken to Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center. According to Magen David Adom, he was in stable condition. The second victim was lightly to moderately injured by the gunfire, MDA said.The incident was the first in Jerusalem since October 17 when a Palestinian teenager tried to stab Border Police officers in Armon Hanatziv, and the second attack of the day Friday.Earlier, two Palestinian men attempted to stab a group of Border Police officers at the Tapuah Junction in the West Bank and were shot by security forces. One died of his wounds and the other was in critical condition, according to police.The Border Police troops were not hurt in the attempted attack.The incidents were the latest in over 60 separate attacks against Israeli civilians and security forces over the past month. Ten Israelis have been killed and dozens wounded in a spate of terror attacks by mainly Palestinian assailants since October 1.
Police shoot one Palestinian, run over second in Ramallah clashes-Rioter shot by troops while throwing firebomb; second attacker hit by police jeep as he attempts to stab officer-By Times of Israel staff and Judah Ari Gross October 30, 2015, 4:36 pm 5-the times of israel
Two Palestinians were moderately wounded Friday afternoon during fierce clashes with Border Police in the West Bank city of Ramallah.A police unit shot and wounded a Palestinian who was about to throw a Molotov cocktail. As medical officers dispensed first aid to the wounded Palestinian, a second Palestinian approached the first responders with a sharp object in his hand. Identifying a clear danger to the officers on the scene, the commander in a jeep ordered his driver to get closer in order to prevent a stabbing, police spokeswoman Luba Samri said.The driver struck the second Palestinian, wounding him (footage here). Both Palestinians were moderately hurt, and no Israeli forces incurred any injuries, the police said.The incident came shortly after two people were injured in a stabbing attack in Jerusalem.According to police, an Israeli man in his 20s sustained moderate injuries when he was stabbed near the Ammunition Hill light rail station by a 23-year-old resident of Kfar Akeb in East Jerusalem. A second man was injured by police gunfire when security forces tried to subdue the attacker, who was shot and critically wounded.“From our initial investigation we believe that a terrorist armed with a knife arrived at the station and stabbed a civilian, injuring him. He then attempted to stab another civilian, but did not succeed,” Samri said.“Light rail guards who were on the scene, other civilians and Border Police officers who were nearby subdued the terrorist. As a result of the gunfire, an additional civilian was injured, with a gunshot wound to the leg,” Samri said.The victim with the stab wounds was treated on the scene by paramedics before being taken to Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center. According to Magen David Adom, he was in stable condition. The second victim was lightly to moderately injured by the gunfire, MDA said.The incident was the first in Jerusalem since October 17 when a Palestinian teenager tried to stab Border Police officers in Armon Hanatziv, and the second attack of the day Friday.Earlier, two Palestinian men attempted to stab a group of Border Police officers at the Tapuah Junction in the West Bank and were shot by security forces. One died of his wounds and the other was in critical condition, according to police.The Border Police troops were not hurt in the attempted attack.The incidents were the latest in over 60 separate attacks against Israeli civilians and security forces over the past month. Ten Israelis have been killed and dozens wounded in a spate of terror attacks by mainly Palestinian assailants since October 1.-Like us on Facebook
Palestinian rioters clash with troops on Gaza border-At least 20 protesters said hurt after attacking soldiers with rocks, Molotov cocktails in several locations-By Times of Israel staff October 30, 2015, 4:24 pm 1
In what has become a weekly occurrence, violent Palestinian protests were reported along the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip on Friday afternoon, following the end of Muslim prayers.Riots that included the use of firebombs, rock throwing and tire burning were reported by Israeli security forces in several locations. The army said troops were acting to disperse the demonstrators.Palestinian officials said at least 20 people were hurt, most of them from tear gas.Egged on by Hamas rulers, the protestors have been routinely demonstrating near the Gaza border in solidarity with West Bank Palestinians, and have broken through the border fence with Israel on several occasions.During a visit to the IDF’s Gaza Division head quarters in the Western Negev last week, military officials told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the security situation at the Israel-Gaza border was “under control.”The riots came as security forces also clashed with Palestinian rioters in the West Bank. At least two Palestinians were wounded in confrontations with Border Police in Ramallah on Friday afternoon, while two Israelis were wounded in an earlier stabbing attack in Jerusalem.
Abbas to meet ICC prosecutor as terror attacks persist-At The Hague, PA president, Fatou Bensouda to discuss ‘grave Israeli escalation,’ according to Palestinian officials-By AFP and Times of Israel staff October 30, 2015, 3:09 pm 6
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will meet on Friday with ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda at The Hague, Palestinian officials said, amid the current wave of Palestinian terror against Israeli civilians and security forces in Israel and across the West Bank.It will be Abbas’s first meeting with the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court since the Palestinian Authority sparked controversy by joining the tribunal in January, an official with the Palestinian mission in The Hague told AFP.Abbas, who is in the Netherlands as part of a European tour, would visit Bensouda “in the context of the grave Israeli escalation in occupied Palestine,” the official said, asking not to be identified. Israel has accused Abbas of helping fuel the terror surge, in part by peddling “lies” about purported Israeli plans to change the status quo at Jerusalem’s contested Temple Mount holy site.Ten Israelis have been killed in the spate of near-daily attacks since October 1 and dozens have been wounded. Over 60 Palestinians have been killed in the latest round of violence, the majority of them while carrying out stabbing attacks against Israelis. The rest died in clashes with Israeli military forces.There was no immediate confirmation from the ICC that Bensouda was meeting with Abbas.Earlier this year, the Palestinians formally asked the ICC to investigate Israel for alleged war crimes during last summer’s Operation Protective Edge in Gaza, drawing Jerusalem’s ire.Israel lost 66 soldiers and six civilians, and a Thai agricultural worker, in the month-long conflict, while the Palestinian death toll surpassed 2,100, according to Hamas officials in Gaza. Israel said about half of the Gaza dead were gunmen and blamed Hamas for all civilian deaths because it operated against Israel from residential areas, placing Gazans in harm’s way.Bensouda has officially opened a preliminary inquiry into the Palestinian allegations to see whether there is sufficient evidence to proceed to a more formal investigation.To support their case, Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki handed over two files to the ICC in June as evidence of its allegations.One file dealt with alleged Israeli crimes committed in Gaza during the 50-day war in July and August last year.The other file delved into the situation in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, including “information about the issue of Palestinian prisoners,” the Palestinian mission in The Hague said in June.Abbas has also since called on Bensouda to probe the July firebombing of a Palestinian home blamed on Jewish extremists, in which a toddler and his parents died.Maliki was to accompany Abbas for Friday’s talks, and would address the press afterwards, the Palestinian official told AFP, refusing to be drawn further on the purpose of the visit.Israel, which has not signed up to the ICC, has opposed the Palestinian attempt to trigger a full investigation for war crimes, but Jerusalem has said it will engage with prosecutors.The Palestinian move also angered the United States which denounced it as “counterproductive.”The ICC was set up in 2002 to investigate and try those responsible for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, where national authorities cannot or will not prosecute.
