(6. November) Yesterday, Mavi Marmara victims and Turkey’s IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation President Bulent Yıldırım held a press conference in Istanbul announcing prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC) had concluded that “Israel has committed a war crime” for the attack on board Mavi Marmara by the Israeli military on May 31, 2010. The announcement specified the ICC would be making an official statement today.

Today, International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda announced the body will not be prosecuting Israel for the deadly attack on humanitarian passengers of the Mavi Marmara although she has reason to believe that war crimes were committed by Israel. In a statement Bensouda said the case is not “of ‘sufficient gravity’ to justify further action”: