In a landmark decision, the International Criminal Court said that it falls on its jurisdiction to prosecute over the war crimes committed in the Palestinian region. The decision makes it possible to file criminal charges against Israel and militant groups like Hamas.

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Nyentahu calls the decision of ICC "pure anti-Semitism" while the Palestinian groups and Human Rights bodies over the world have welcomed the decision. The Jewish state of Israel is often alleged to scaremongering the critics by calling them out as the "Anti-Semite."

Katherine Gallagher, senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights and a legal representative for Palestinian victims in front of the ICC, said the court's ruling can be a landmark decision that provides “some measure of accountability” when war crimes are committed in Palestinian territories.

“There are just an array of violations that have been going on for years,” She said to Democracy Now.

The United States has been on Israel's side in the decision.