Comment by wtfwhateven
4 months ago
>The court has no jurisdiction.
It does have jurisdiction.
>So no, they were not solid.
They were and are solid.
>but that is through some incredibly weird legal gymnastics
No it isn't.
>by which somehow the non-existent state of Palestine
It definitely does exist.
>is a member giving the court authority
Yes, it joined the ICC in 2015.
> over its non-existent territory.
Its territory does in fact exist.
> It does have jurisdiction.
Under its own rules and its own interpretation of Gaza governance. That doesn't make it some sort of legal or practical reality - I can make up a set of rules under which I'm the world leader, but it would have no effect.
> It definitely does exist.
This is a bit of a semantic question, but it doesn't really meet the criteria set out in the Montevideo Convention.
> Yes, it joined the ICC in 2015.
Not Hamas, which is the actual government of the territory in question (Gaza). The idea that an entity which never governed a territory, and has never been popular there, can grant a foreign court jurisdiction there is a bit absurd.