Sydney law firm Birchgrove Legal sent a 92-page communiqué to International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Karim Khan in early March, comprising evidence that PM Anthony Albanese and a number of other high level MPs are complicit in the Gaza genocide.

Birchgrove Legal announced on July 16 that the Office of the Prosecutor of the ICC had added the document “to the evidence gathered as part of the ICC’s investigation into the Situation in the State of Palestine”. It also said it was given to relevant staff members “for further review”.

The March 4 claim was lodged under article 15 of the Rome Statute, which provides that the ICC prosecutor will analyse the evidence and, if it is enough to proceed, will submit it to the pre-trial chamber which may call for extra evidence and may launch an investigation.

The Conduct of Members of the Parliament of Australia, in Relation to the Situation in Gaza, Palestine: Accessorial Liability for Genocide communiqué made Albanese the first leader of a Western nation to be referred to the ICC for prosecution.

Now that the claim has been accepted into the evidence for the broader investigation of war crimes allegations in the occupied Palestinian........

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