Mexico and Chile have asked the International Criminal Court to investigate possible crimes committed during Hamas’s attack on Israel and the Jewish state’s subsequent invasion of Gaza.
The move is the latest sign of mounting international concern at the soaring human cost of the war, which is now the deadliest round of fighting in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since the establishment of Israel in 1948.
Mexico said it and Chile had made the referral as a result of “growing concern over the latest escalation of violence, particularly against civilian targets, and the alleged continued commission of crimes”, both in Hamas’s October 7 attack launched from Gaza and during Israel’s retaliatory invasion of the coastal enclave.