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Implications of the ICC Ruling for Israel
(Jerusalem Post) Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman - Israel Democracy Institute vice president of research Prof. Yuval Shany responded to the ICC ruling that it has jurisdiction to investigate Israelis for actions in Gaza, the West Bank and east Jerusalem. "We have a long way to go before the investigations mature into indictments against specific individuals and arrest warrants. By then the prosecution will also have to formulate a position on whether IDF internal investigations are sufficient to prevent the prosecution of soldiers." Citing a similar ICC case involving the actions of British soldiers in Iraq, he said it was likely that the IDF's own investigations "will prevent proceedings against IDF soldiers."