Dear ICC, actions speak louder than words [This is the ICC not the ICJ -ed.]
Qamar Taleb | The ICC's Chief Prosecutor keeps on asking for evidence regarding the Israeli genocide in Gaza, so here's the tip of the iceberg. | On October 30, 2023, Karim Khan, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) released a statement addressing the Israeli war on Gaza with a tint of poetry: "The laws that we have, the Rome Statute that I operate under, requires that innocent lives are particularly protected. And what is most important is that the application of the law is not theoretical. People have heard promises for a long time. There have been enough words to fill libraries. In my view, the protections afforded by the law apply equally regardless of one's race and one's religion, one's nationality, one's gender.” And he’s absolutely right, but the latter is only part of the words filling libraries if no action is taken by the Court.