After Gaza war, lawyer builds Palestinian case

After Gaza war, lawyer builds Palestinian case

GAZA CITY: Overlooking war-battered Gaza from the tenth floor of a tower block, Palestinian human rights lawyer Raji Sourani has a new bundle of files-on victims of last month's war with the Zionists. For years, he has been building cases in the Zionist-blockaded enclave to be submitted to the International Criminal Court. The 66-year-old lawyer has already filed dozens of cases with The Hague-based court since 2015, after the Palestinian Authority ratified the court's Rome Statute.

The cases represent Palestinian victims of war crimes committed by the Jewish state, according to the lawyer. For Sourani, the ICC chief prosecutor's announcement in March of a full investigation into the situation in the occupied territories was a day of hope. Sourani, who founded the Gaza-based Palestinian Centre for Human Rights in 1995, said an ICC investigation will allow victims to restore their "dignity“ and see "proper justice“.

'Dreamers'

"We are dreamers, because I mean, if you look around us, the fact is it's so sad, so bad. It's totally unbalanced,“ he said, weighing up his legal struggle against the might of the Zionist entity's apparatus. Sourani and his team of 60 document everything they can to try to prove the Jewish state deliberately targets civilians