THE POSITION OF THE ICC PROSECUTOR IN THE RECENT HOSTILITIES IN THE GAZA STRIP

As it usually happens with the initiation of large multilateral projects, the advent of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in July 2002 was greeted with a sense of joy. It was believed that the days of impunity of those individuals committing the “most serious crimes of international concern” were numbered. Almost five years later, the ICC has arguably not achieved much in terms of what the general public believed that its mission would be, namely to arrest those committing genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, to try them, and to put them behind bars...[more]