{"id":6106,"date":"2019-05-01T12:04:07","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T12:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jfp.freedomflotilla.org\/?p=6106"},"modified":"2025-02-06T19:54:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T19:54:56","slug":"international-criminal-court-appeals-chamber-holds-oral-hearing-today-re-2010-israeli-attack-on-the-mavi-marmara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jfp.freedomflotilla.org\/ar\/news\/ffc-statements\/international-criminal-court-appeals-chamber-holds-oral-hearing-today-re-2010-israeli-attack-on-the-mavi-marmara","title":{"rendered":"International Criminal Court, Appeals Chamber Holds Oral Hearing Today re 2010 Israeli Attack on the Mavi Marmara"},"content":{"rendered":"

UPDATE: The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) heard this matter on 1 May 2019, and will deliver its judgment on the appeal on 2 September 2019. The judgement will be delivered by the Appeals Chamber in open court. For more information, see the ICC’s Media Advisory<\/a> and the Scheduling Order<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

For immediate release
\n<\/strong>1 May 2019<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

International Criminal Court, Appeals Chamber Holds Oral Hearings re Opening Investigation of the 2010 Israeli Attack on the Mavi Marmara of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla<\/strong><\/p>\n

Today, the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is holding an oral hearing before the five judges of the Appeals Chamber. This is a significant, historical occasion for our case and in the history of the ICC, as it is very rare that this kind of oral hearing occurs.<\/p>\n

Since the deadly and illegal attack by Israeli soldiers on the Mavi Marmara ship and other boats in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla in 2010, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) has been seeking justice at national and international courts on behalf of the families of the 10 people who were killed by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) in international waters.<\/p>\n

The people killed by the IOF on 31 May 2010 were:
\nAli Haydar Bengi<\/em>
\nCeniz Song\u00fcr<\/em>
\n\u00c7etin Top\u00e7uoglu<\/em>
\nNecdet Yildirim<\/em>
\nIbrahim Bilgen<\/em>
\nFahri Yaldiz<\/em>
\nFurkan Do\u011fan<\/em>
\nCevdet Kili\u00e7lar<\/em>
\nCengiz Aky\u00fcz<\/em>
\nUgur S\u00fcleyman S\u00f6ylemez<\/em> (died in 2014 as a result of his wounds)<\/p>\n

The legal process began on 14 May, 2013 when an application to the ICC was made on behalf of the Union of the Comoros, the flag state of the Mavi Marmara, as well as for all of the represented victims seeking justice (https:\/\/www.icc-cpi.int\/comoros). Since the commencement of the legal process, communications with the ICC have continued.<\/p>\n

On 6 November 2014, the ICC Prosecutor decided not to open an investigation into the Israeli attack on the six ships of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, despite finding that the attack constituted a war crime.<\/p>\n

Our lawyers filed an appeal to this decision. In several rulings since 2014, the Court has found that the Prosecutor\u2019s decision contained errors and ordered her to reconsider her decision giving her a deadline of 15 May 2019 to make a final decision on opening an investigation. The Prosecutor then appealed against this decision. \u00a0We were recently informed by the ICC that the Appeals Chamber would hold an oral hearing on 1 May 2019. The Appeals Chamber set out specific questions it seeks answers to concerning the Prosecutor\u2019s appeal.<\/p>\n

Ann Wright, spokesperson for US Boats to Gaza (a partner of the FFC) said: \u2018We pay our respect and send our love to all of the families who continue to demand justice for those murdered on 31 May 2010. \u2018Their \u201ccrime\u201d was to use their bodies to challenge an illegal blockade and for that they were extrajudicially killed while sailing under the flag of the Union of Comoros, in international waters\u2019.<\/p>\n

Ann Wright of US Boats to Gaza continued: \u2018Thanks also to our 12 national partners and the law firm of Stokes and White for its steadfast assistance in seeking justice for the ten people killed and the fifty wounded by Israeli forces and those beaten up and terrorized by the IOF on the other five ships of the flotilla. We hope that justice will prevail and the perpetrators of these war crimes are brought to account without further delay.\u2019<\/p>\n

For more information including interviews, contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ann Wright: +1 808 741 1141
\nDavid Heap: +1 519 859 3579<\/p>\n

Further background information:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The short film that we made available at https:\/\/youtu.be\/GV4FHEmTaio<\/u> provides a visual documentary of what happened on 31 May, 2010. A further multi-award winning film, \u2019The Truth Lost at Sea\u2019 is accessible here https:\/\/truthlostatsea.com\/
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\n<\/u>The FFC has continued to sail boats to attempt to break the illegal Israeli blockade of Gaza and bring international attention to the suffering of the more than two million people of Gaza from the illegal Israeli land, air and sea blockade of Gaza.\u00a0 Boats have sailed to Gaza in 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016 and 2018.\u00a0 The next boats will sail in 2020.<\/p>\n

Web: https:\/\/jfp.freedomflotilla.org\/
\nTwitter: @gazafflotilla
\nFacebook: FreedomFlotillaCoalition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UPDATE: The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) heard this matter on 1 May 2019, and will deliver its judgment on the appeal on 2 September 2019. The judgement will be delivered by the Appeals Chamber in open court. For more information, see the ICC’s Media Advisory and the Scheduling Order. For immediate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[106],"tags":[81,157,64,380,122],"class_list":["post-6106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ffc-statements","tag-blockade-of-gaza","tag-freedom-flotilla-coalition","tag-gaza-blockade","tag-international-criminal-court","tag-mavi-marmara"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"ar","enabled_languages":["en","ar","es","it","fr","no","tr"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"ar":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"es":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"it":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"fr":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"no":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"tr":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/jfp.freedomflotilla.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MaviMarmara2010.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9QIOk-1Au","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jfp.freedomflotilla.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jfp.freedomflotilla.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jfp.freedomflotilla.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jfp.freedomflotilla.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jfp.freedomflotilla.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6106"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jfp.freedomflotilla.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6234,"href":"https:\/\/jfp.freedomflotilla.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6106\/revisions\/6234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jfp.freedomflotilla.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jfp.freedomflotilla.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jfp.freedomflotilla.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jfp.freedomflotilla.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}