Bringing Israeli Officials to the International Criminal Court on the Crime of Aggression

During decades of occupation, Israel's actions, including annexation of the West Bank, are considered a crime of aggression, with consequences for Israel both in terms of international responsibility law and criminal responsibility. In this article, we discuss the criminal responsibility of the Israeli authorities in this regard. This article, based on a descriptive-analytical method, first describes the events and then analyzes the annexation of the West Bank in the light of the provisions of the International Criminal Court in the light of the crime of aggression. The present article focuses on the possibility of raising the issue in the International Criminal Court due to the annexation of parts of the West Bank to Israel. According to the paper, the substantive and procedural conditions for investigating the crime of aggression in connection with the annexation are provided in the International Criminal Court, and the Court can examine the crime of aggression alongside war crimes and crimes against humanity.