Frontline Evidence Collection The Gaza Experience
By: Julie Webb-Pullman
Gaza Centre for Human Rights
Submitted to: Global Tribunal on Palestine Geneva, Switzerland, 6-8 June 2024
COMPLIMENTARITY – ICC:
- Requires States to investigate War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity in the first resort
- The collection, management and storage of forensic evidence is an essential component of investigation of such crimes
- Palestine, including Gaza, has a well-established British-modeled criminal justice system set up during the British Mandate, including Legislation and Regulations relating to criminal evidence collection
- One of the ICC justifications for its slowness to open a full investigation into the situation in Palestine was its insistence that it could not obtain the evidence required for a successful conviction because of Israel’s refusal to permit ICC personnel to enter Israel or Palestine, particularly Gaza.
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