"The Palestinian Authority on Monday urged the International Criminal Court in The Hague to set a date for the submission of documents regarding what it says are crimes committed by Israel in the West Bank and during the last summer's 50-day-war in the Gaza Strip...
The Palestinians accepted the court's jurisdiction in mid-January and officially joined the ICC on April 1 in hopes of prosecuting Israel for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity during the Gaza conflict...
Israel, however, has denounced the Palestinians' joining the court as 'scandalous,' with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warning that it turns the ICC 'into part of the problem and not part of the solution.'"