TEHRAN (Iran News) –International bodies in recent decades have taken double standard approaches regarding different issues and they have tried to please the big powers or those who have great influence on them or finance them, and for this reason people worldwide especially the oppressed ones have lost their trust to those bodies.

For years the Zionist regime has continued its atrocities and crimes against the Palestinian people or anybody who has opposed this killing regime, and unfortunately the international bodies have taken passive or indifferent stands against this fake regime, and the Zionists have been emboldened to go on killing spree in the Occupied Lands.

Now it is reported that Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Riyad al-Maliki has handed over to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) a file on the Israeli crimes committed against Palestinian people.

During a meeting in The Hague with Karim Khan, Maliki stressed that the state of Palestine continues to cooperate with the ICC and the staff of the prosecutor’s office to submit all documented information that proves that Israeli military and civilian officials have committed serious and continuous crimes against the Palestinian people. He stressed that all of these crimes fall within the jurisdiction of the ICC.

The top Palestinian diplomat stressed the importance of the ICC and its role in holding war criminals accountable in light of the rise to power of the extremist government of terrorist settlers, who bluntly express their schemes that are based on field executions and forcible expulsion.

The Palestinian minister said bringing the criminals before international justice will contribute to the protection of the Palestinian people and deter crimes committed against them.

Elsewhere in his remarks, he called on the ICC prosecutor to pay a visit to Palestine and give priority to administration of justice.

Palestinian human rights advocates last year hailed a decision by the ICC to affirm its full territorial jurisdiction over the occupied Palestinian territories.

Israel is not a member of the ICC, but Palestine was allowed to join in 2015 and has since called for an investigation into Israeli crimes.

The Hague-based court has already opened an investigation into possible war crimes by Israel in both the occupied West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip. In 2021, the UN documented 2,934 grave violations against 1,208 Palestinian children in occupied Palestine and the Gaza Strip. The UN Human Rights Council, Human Rights Watch, and other international human rights organizations have accused Israel of apartheid in the past two years.

Israel has killed more than 210 Palestinians since the start of 2022 in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health .

So we can see several open files against the Zionists’ crimes in the ICC but it has been no serious action from this international body yet and it seems like any other file this one will also be ignored or verdict will be nothing to bother the Zionists.

Local and international rights groups have condemned Israel’s excessive use of force and “shoot-to-kill policy” against Palestinians, at a time that mainstream media and Western powers turn a blind eye to the atrocities committed by the Israeli occupation forces on a daily basis.

Many believe Israel will get away with its crimes against Palestinians as long as it enjoys protection and patronage from the United States.

We have not forgotten the killing of Aljazeera journalist Abu Akleh by the Zionist soldiers in the occupied West Bank and so far there has been no serious international action or legal procedure against Israel.

So this time it is an acid test for the ICC as a so-called independent body to launch a probe about this file and have a serious and fair verdict and decision on the case in order to win the trust of the Palestinians and independent and oppressed people.

People in the world will trust the international bodies when they see these bodies are fair and do not  bow down to the pressure of the big powers and please them.

The countdown for the result of this file and the verdict has been ticked and the ICC can show the world people whether they can trust on international bodies like the ICC or not because in most cases these bodies have been passive and even their verdicts have been in a way to please all parties, predominantly the big powers. So we can wait and see whether the Palestinians can trust the ICC or they themselves have to take action against the Zionists and continue their intifadha against this fake regime to bring it down and win back the occupied lands.