The Israeli government on Tuesday will hold a special meeting to consider responding to the International Criminal Court’s decision to open an investigation into crimes committed inside Palestine.

The Israeli Kan 11 channel reported that the meeting chaired by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would take place two days before the deadline that the court granted to Israel to respond to the notice to start an investigation, according to the Safa translation.

The channel said that the foreign and military ministries are inclined to support a response to the criminal court report.

The Hebrew Walla website stated that the competent authorities in Israeli security and foreign affairs held several meetings during recent weeks, including consultations regarding the strategy to respond to the court’s decision to open an investigation into Israeli crimes.

The site indicated that the meeting decided to raise a recommendation to the political level to send an objective book to the ICC in an attempt to persuade it to cancel the investigation, but the position of the political level will be clarified during today's session.

The site quoted security sources as saying that there is no authority for the ICC to hear issues in Palestine, calling for an attempt to persuade the new Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karen Khan, to study again the court's decision in this regard.

The sources expressed their belief that, if the Israeli political level adopts the recommendations of security and foreign affairs, then there is an opportunity to cancel the decision to open the investigation.

The ICC had sent a notification to the Israeli government about a month ago, informing it of its intention to open an investigation into its crime in Palestine and give it a month to respond as to whether it wanted to investigate these crimes on its own or not.

The discussion is about three cases that the court intends to investigate, which are building settlements in the West Bank, Israeli crimes in the war on Gaza in 2014, in addition to crimes against demonstrators during the 2018–2019 Gaza border protests.

Source : Safa