The International Criminal Court in The Hague (ICC) confirmed in a letter sent to attorney Mordechai Tzivin that a complaint he filed against Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and other senior officials in the Authority will be heard when Mahmoud Abbas also files a complaint against senior Israeli officials.
According to a report in Yedioth Ahronoth, Tzivin's complaint, which preceded any other complaint, may prevent Abbas from filing complaints against Israel.
If Abu Mazen files a complaint, as the Palestinians have repeatedly threatened, senior IDF officials and politicians will not be able to travel abroad, except to the United States, for fear that they will be arrested under an order from the Hague tribunal.
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If Abu Mazen files a complaint with the court in The Hague, there is no doubt that he will include a central clause in the complaint against anyone who established or assisted in the establishment of the settlements. According to the convention, transferring a civilian population to occupied territories is considered a criminal offense. This, incidentally, is one of the reasons why Israel did not join the convention.
Attorney Tsibin has international connections, including secrets, as he represented some of the "prisoners from Japan," and a billionaire Syrian citizen, close to the president of Romania, based on a promise that he would reveal where the spy Eli Cohen, the Rev.
