Richard Falk, an American professor of international law who is now the UN’s Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights Situation in the occupied Palestinian territory — and who was deported when he tried to come to Israel a few month’s ago — has written in the current edition of the monthly Le Monde Diplomatique that he is sceptical about eventual war crimes prosecutions over the recent Israeli military operation in Gaza.
He wrote that he believes there is a basis for such prosecutions, but that chances are slim that trials or judicial proceedings would happen, in the real world. But, he wrote, “the surfacing of criminal charges against Israel during and after its attacks on Gaza resulted in major gains on the legitimacy front for the Palestinians”.
Falk is due to present a report to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on 23 March on the IDF’s three-week war on Gaza, which Israel called “Operation Cast Lead” in reference to a Hanukkah toy.
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