Background Materials — Gaza Jurisdiction

  • Relevant Treaties

  • Official Documents (in chronological order)

    • Declaration of the Palestinian National Authority recognizing the Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, executed for the Government of Palestine by Ali Khashan, Minister of Justice, Jan. 21, 2009, available online.

    • Human Rights in Palestine and Other Occupied Arab Territories: Report of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict [The Goldstone Report], Sep. 29, 2009, available online.

    • Letter on the Palestinian Authority’s Submission, from Beatrice Le Frapper du Hellen, Director, Jurisdiction, Complementarity, and Compliance Division, International Criminal Court to Kyung-Wah Kang, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Jan. 12, 2010, available online.

    • Office of the Prosecutor, ICC, Situation in Palestine: Summary of submissions on whether the declaration lodged by the Palestinian National Authority meets statutory requirements (May 3, 2010), available online.

    • United Nations Human Rights Council, Report of the Committee of independent experts in international humanitarian and human rights laws to monitor and assess any domestic, legal or other proceedings undertaken by both the Government of Israel and the Palestinian side, in the light of General Assembly resolution 64/254, including the independence, effectiveness, genuineness of these investigations and their conformity with international standards, A/HRC/15/50. Advance Edited Version (Sep. 21, 2010), available online.

    • UN Watch, Goldstone II: Questions on the Impartiality of the U.N. Tomuschat Committee, Oct. 21, 2010, available online.

  • Official Submissions to the ICC (in chronological order)

    • John Quigley, Memo to the Prosecutor (Mar. 23, 2009), available online.

    • John Quigley, The Palestine Declaration to the International Criminal Court: The Statehood Issue (May 19, 2009), available online.

    • European Centre for Law and Justice, Legal Memorandum opposing accession to ICC jurisdiction by Non-State entities (Sep. 9, 2009), available online.

    • The International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists, Opinion in the matter of the jurisdiction of the ICC with regard to the Declaration of the Palestinian authority (Sep. 9, 2009), available online.

    • Palestinian National Authority, Working Draft (Oct. 13, 2009), not available online.

    • League of Arab States, Documents on the status of Palestine Oct. 14, 2009. English, عربي.

    • Daniel Benoliel & Ronen Perry, Israel, Palestine and the ICC (Nov. 5, 2009), available online.

    • David Davenport, Kenneth Anderson, Samuel Estreicher, Eugene Kontorovich, Julian G. Ku; & Abraham D. Sofaer, The Palestinian Declaration and ICC Jurisdiction (Nov. 19, 2009), available online.

    • Michael Kearney, Al-Haq Position Paper on Issues Arising from the Palestinian Authority’s Submission of a Declaration to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court under Article 12(3) of the Rome Statute, (Dec. 14, 2009), available online.

    • Alain Pellet, Les effets de la reconnaissance par la Palestine de la compétence de la CPI (Feb. 18, 2010). Available online en Français, English translation.

    • Errol Mendes, Statehood and Palestine for the purposes of Article 12(3) of the ICC Statute: a contrary perspective (Mar. 30, 2010), available online.

  • Journal Articles & Commentary (alphabetical by author)