Palestine gets ICC membership, opening door to Israel war crimes prosecutionPalestine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs arrives at #ICC, as#RomeStatute enters into force for Palestine pic.twitter.com/rzLTi4qqEd – Int’l Criminal Court (@IntlCrimCourt) April 1, 2015 The April 1 accession to the International Criminal Court is the most substantial step to date in Palestine’s international legal campaign to seek justice for Israel’s operation ‘Protective Edge’ last summer, in which thousands of civilians were killed.