"The Assembly of States Parties (ASP) of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Saturday elected 'the State of Palestine' as a member of its bureau, the Palestinian Authority (PA) mission to the United Nations said, according to the WAFA news agency...
It also stated that all the States Parties have activated the ICC jurisdiction over the crime of aggression and accepted a definition that considers "the occupation" as a crime of aggression...
When the PA officially joined the ICC on April 1, 2015, it immediately filed a series of legal complaints with the court. In addition to claiming that Israel committed war crimes during the 2014 Gaza war, it also claimed that Israeli 'settlements' are 'an ongoing war crime'.
In September, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) said it would submit an official request to the ICC to investigate what it called 'illegal Israeli settlement activity'...