Palestine condemns Boris Johnson for opposing ICC Israel investigation

PM accused of giving carte blanche to Israel' by saying court had no right to examine alleged war crimes

Palestine has said relations with Britain have reached a low point" after Boris Johnson announced that he opposed an international criminal court investigation into alleged war crimes in the Israeli-occupied territories.

The prime minister's comments, made in a letter to the Conservative Friends of Israel lobby group in the UK, said that while his government had respect [for] the independence" of the court, it opposed this particular inquiry into Israel.