(11. September) The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas stopped an application to join the International Criminal Court, six days days after it was submitted to The Hague by his own Minister of Justice and over half way through Israel’s bombardment of Gaza.

The Middle East Eye can reveal that Abbas’ Minister for Foreign Affairs Riad Maliki disowned the application in a private meeting with the ICC Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda in The Hague on 5 August.