Bahar urges parliaments to pass national legislation to prosecute Israel

[22/04/2009 - 08:37 AM ]

TEHRAN, (PIC)--

Dr. Ahmed Bahar, the acting speaker of the PLC, on Tuesday called on all Arab, Islamic and international parliaments to work hard to introduce new national legislation to prosecute Israeli war criminals in the framework of efforts made worldwide to file lawsuits against Israel.

During the conference of general attorneys of the Islamic world held in Tehran, Bahar stressed that the international community should shoulder its responsibilities and pressure Israel to compensate the Palestinian people for all damages it caused during its barbaric aggression on the Gaza Strip as stipulated in the provisions of international law.

The acting speaker underlined that Israel flouted all international norms and conventions when it waged its massive war by land, air and sea on unarmed civilians in full view of the whole world.

He emphasized that the international community is demanded to refute charges of collusion with the Israel in its war crimes against the Palestinian people and to pressure Israel to respect the fourth Geneva convention of 1949 which obliges Israel to fulfill the needs of the Palestinian people under its occupation.

Bahar also called on the Arab states to honor their pledges to form a special tribunal to prosecute Israeli war criminals according to the provision of international law.

Haniya calls on int'l criminal court to bring Israeli leaders to trial

[ 21/04/2009 - 07:31 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)--

Palestinian premier Ismail Haniya on Tuesday called on the international criminal court to bring Israeli leaders to trial, noting that Israeli soldiers confessed to receiving orders to commit war crimes against unarmed Palestinian civilians during the war on Gaza.

In a speech addressed to the second conference of general attorneys of Islamic states held in Tehran, premier Haniya said that what happened in Gaza was a shameful affront to humanity, where Palestinian civilians were subjected to Israeli land, naval and aerial attacks over 20 days of a massive war during which IOF troops committed heinous war crimes and violated all norms and laws.

The premier added that the IOF troops killed children and women, burned and bombed unarmed civilians in houses, markets, schools and hospitals, and destroyed civil, security and government buildings all over Gaza.

He underlined that Israel became accustomed to committing crimes against the Palestinian people without being punished by the international community, stressing that Israeli leaders must be prosecuted in international courts for the atrocities they committed in Gaza.

In another context, Jordanian soldier Ahmed Al-Daqamsah, who is serving a life sentence, said Monday that he intends to file a lawsuit with local courts to demand the abolition of the Israeli-Jordanian peace treaty signed in 1994 and its consequent obligations.

In a press interview conducted with him by Al-Ghad newspaper inside the prison, Daqamsah explained that he wants to take this step because Israel violated the treaty twice in 1998 and last month through polluting Jordanian water with waste materials and sewage disposed from Israeli settlements.

Soldier Daqamsah was sent to jail by the Jordanian state security court in 1997 after he killed seven Israeli female settlers on a visit to Jordan and wounded others when they deliberately and provocatively mocked him as he was performing prayer.