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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Daniel Hurst in Canberra

Labor backs ICC’s role in international law as other MPs condemn Israeli ‘war’ on court

David Pocock
Independent senator David Pocock says Australia ‘cannot pick and choose which potential crimes are politically convenient for the ICC to investigate’. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

The Australian government has backed the international criminal court as playing a vital role in upholding international law after revelations of a nearly decade-long secret Israeli “war” against the ICC.

Other Australian politicians were more forthright in responding to the Guardian’s reports about how Israel had deployed its intelligence agencies to surveil, hack, pressure, smear and allegedly threaten senior court staff in an effort to derail its inquiries since 2015.

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