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International law seems eyeless in Gaza. For more than two weeks the world has watched war crimes apparently committed by both sides: lethal attacks on schools and hospitals, rocket showers aimed at civilians, tunnels chillingly lined with syringes and ropes, and always, the dead and dying children. Now the call goes up from politicians and prelates and the UN Secretary-General for ''accountability'' and ''responsibility'' and ''justice''. That should mean a proper forensic investigation with criminal charges against commanders if the evidence warrants, heard in an international criminal court. It is important to understand why this could happen and why it probably will not.

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There is, after all, an International Criminal Court in The Hague, with a prosecutor equipped to investigate and to charge (under article 8 of the ICC statute) precisely those crimes that seem to be occurring in the present conflict. But her power to act arises only in two relevant circumstances. First, by a reference from the Security Council, which is sure to be blocked by one – if not all – of the five permanent members. By the US (always protective of Israel), by Russia (afraid of where a criminal investigation of MH17 might lead), by China (obsessed with state sovereignty), and even by Britain and France for reasons I will shortly consider.

http://www.smh.com.au/comment/gaza-law-of-war-needs-testing-at-international-criminal-court-20140801-zzaxa.html
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