GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — The head of the Supreme National Committee responsible for follow-up with the International Criminal Court (ICC), Saeb Erekat, sent Oct. 18 an official letter to ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda. He called for expediting the opening of a criminal investigation into Israel's ongoing war crimes against the Palestinians and their properties in the West Bank city of Hebron.
The letter detailed the expanding settlement activities and the attacks and violations by the extremist settlers against the city’s residents. Erekat, who is also secretary-general of the PLO, pointed out that the Israeli Cabinet had approved Oct. 14 a project worth roughly $6 million to build 31 additional settlement units in Shuhada Street.