An Israeli minister has called on his government to dismantle the Palestinian Authority (PA) government in a reaction to the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) decision to launch an investigation into alleged Israeli war crimes.
In a tweet posted on Saturday, Bezalel Smotrich, the Israeli minister of transport, also labelled the ICC “a political, antisemitic institution”
His comments were in response to remarks by Fatou Bensouda, chief prosecutor of the ICC, on Friday that there was reasonable basis to investigate alleged war crimes in the occupied Palestinian territories of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip.
