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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Emma Graham-Harrison in Jerusalem

Israeli former PM calls on ICC to halt West Bank ‘Jewish terrorists’ after prosecutions stop

A woman sits alone, crying, in a rural setting
A woman leaves her home after months of harassment from a nearby illegal Israeli settler outpost in Ras Ein al-Auja, near Jericho in the Israel-occupied Palestinian West Bank Photograph: John Wessels/AFP/Getty Images

Israel has not prosecuted its citizens for killing Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank since the start of this decade, a Guardian analysis of legal data and public records show, creating impunity for a campaign of violence.

Attacks have spurred former prime minister Ehud Olmert to call for an intervention by the international criminal court (ICC), to “save the Palestinians and us [Israelis]” from state-backed settler violence, carried out with the complicity and sometimes participation of the police and military.

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