The international community and its political and judicial systems must unite in defines of the values of justice and international law.

The Legal Department of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine stated that the resignation of one of the judges of the International Criminal Court (British judge Andrew Cayley) is one of the outcomes of the pressure exerted by the United States on the Court›s judges. The latest of these pressures was the imposition of sanctions on four female judges of the Court last June, in response to ICC investigations that led to accusations against Israel of committing war crimes in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Cayley noted that he and others had faced security and economic threats from U.S. officials, which disrupted their work due to the psychological pressure they endured. (He was appointed in March 2024 and played an important role alongside American lawyer Brenda Hollis in leading investigations into Israeli violations in the occupied Palestinian territories).
The Legal Department stated that the United States and Israel want to steer international justice according to their own interests and to remain beyond the reach of prosecution. That is why they have not signed the Rome Statute of the Court. Therefore, the international community—particularly the member states of the Rome Statute—must respond firmly by taking the necessary steps to protect the judges of the Court, ensure the integrity of the judicial process, and proceed with prosecuting those accused of war crimes in Gaza, especially Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.
The Legal Department pointed out that the reaction of the United States and Israel to the Court’s investigations and the arrest warrants issued against Netanyahu and his former Minister of Defines, along with possible secret warrants against other Israeli political and military officials, are all indications of Israel’s fear of the outcomes of the Court’s investigations and the potential verdicts that may condemn it for genocide, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing, forced displacement, and starvation of civilians.
The Legal Department of the Democratic Front affirmed that the values of international law and human rights must prevail over those who seek to impose the law of the jungle above all international treaties—especially as many peoples around the world, first and foremost the Palestinian people, look to the ICC and other international legal bodies as their last refuge in the face of the arrogance of power and fascism led by the United States and Israel in their handling of the Palestinian cause and their rejection of the national rights of the Palestinian people.
The Legal Department of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine concluded by saying: Targeting the ICC and its judges is an attack on the international judicial system. The success of Trump and Netanyahu in intimidating ICC judges is evidence of the failure and weakness of the international system, which has so far been unable to provide protection for the Court’s judges. The international community, in all its political, legal, and judicial frameworks, must unite to defend law, justice, and human rights—with the hope that the day never comes when the following question must be asked: How can a Court that cannot protect its own judges deliver justice to the peoples of the world whose rights are violated by powers that impose their will upon states and their systems through military force?