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ICC Requests Palestinians Clarify whether Oslo Accords Still Stand
(Ha'aretz) Noa Landau - The International Criminal Court at The Hague requested the Palestinian Authority on Tuesday to provide clarification regarding Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' recent declaration that he is ending all agreements with Israel and the U.S. The ICC Prosecutor requested information "on the question whether [Abbas' statement] pertains to any of the Oslo agreements between Palestine and Israel." The court asked to know the current status of the agreements, in part, because Israel claims that the Oslo Accords established that the PA is not a state and that it therefore is not under the ICC's jurisdiction. In a legal opinion delivered to The Hague, Israel wrote that it would take an "act of implausible 'legal gymnastics' to claim that the Palestinians have criminal jurisdiction of any kind over Israeli nationals that they can delegate to the Court...such jurisdiction is explicitly excluded in the very agreements that established the Palestinian Authority."