Palestinians & Friends Attack Israeli Occupiers

[JohnUbele]

USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier leaving Red Sea after attacks off Yemen coast

"...USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier is leaving the Red Sea waters, after it came under sustained retaliatory missile and drone attacks from Yemeni naval units last week.

According to the United States Naval Institute (USNI), the Nimitz-class warship has entered the US 7th Fleet, departing West Asia without a carrier for just the second time in over a year.

The last time the US Navy left the region without a carrier strike group was in June, when USS Dwight D. Eisenhower entered the Mediterranean while USS Theodore Roosevelt made its way to the United States Central Command (CENTCOM).

The arrival of USS Theodore Roosevelt in June allowed the Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group to leave West Asia after seven months..."

Source:
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/11/1 ... emen-coast

[JohnUbele]

Iraq resistance strikes 'vital' Israeli target as Tel Aviv asks Baghdad to prevent attacks

"...The Islamic Resistance in Iraq has launched drone attacks on a "vital" Israeli target inside the occupied Palestinian territories, in response to the regime’s genocide in the besieged Gaza Strip and carnage in Lebanon.

In a statement published on its Telegram channel, the umbrella group of anti-terror fighters in the Arab country announced that it had launched the attack in the early hours of Tuesday.

"In continuation of our approach to resisting the occupation, and in support of our people in Palestine and Lebanon, and in response to the massacres committed by the usurping entity against civilians, including children, women and the elderly, the fighters of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq on Tuesday, November 11th, attacked a vital target in the south of the occupied territories using drones", the resistance group said..."

Source:
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/11/1 ... ideon-Saar

[JohnUbele]

Over 70,000 Palestinians at risk of starvation in north Gaza

"...Tens of thousands of Palestinians are at risk of starvation and deadly thirst in the northern Gaza Strip, amid Israel’s devastating siege and bombing of the area.

The situation in northern Gaza has been described as "apocalyptic" by acting UN aid chief Joyce Msuya as the regime’s military has intensified bombardment of residential areas and blocked the entry of humanitarian aid to the besieged people for more than 50 days now.

On Tuesday, the Palestinian Civil Defense said more than 70,000 people are currently at risk of starvation and deadly thirst if they survive the regime’s intense bombardment of Palestinian towns in northern Gaza.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) also confirmed that over 65,000 people are suffering inhumane conditions in the northern towns of the Gaza Strip.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said it had made three attempts to deploy an international medical team to Kamal Adwan and Al-Awda Hospitals in the northern Gaza Governorate, but Israeli forces have denied their entry..."

Source:
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/11/1 ... north-Gaza

[JohnUbele]

US Republicans tell Israel 'reinforcements are on the way'

"...Republicans sent a message to Israel on Tuesday, telling the long-time US ally that "reinforcements are on the way", as they prepare to take total control of Washington.

"Senate Republicans reclaim the majority in six weeks, and when we do, we will make clear the United States Congress stands squarely in Israel's corner and we will help the Trump-Vance administration defend Israel and promote peace in the region," Senator John Thune told reporters on Capitol Hill..."

Source:
https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/us ... n-the-way/

[JohnUbele]

Two bases housing US occupation troops in eastern Syria targeted by rockets

"...Two military bases in Syria’s eastern provinces of Hasakah and Dayr al-Zawr, where US occupation troops and their allied militants are stationed, have come under separate barrages of rockets.

Lebanon’s al-Mayadeen television news channel, citing local sources, reported that several projectiles struck the vicinity of a US military facility in al-Shaddadi town, located about 50 kilometers (31 miles) south of Hasakah, on Tuesday..."

Source:
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/11/2 ... by-rockets

[Will Williams]

US Republicans tell Israel 'reinforcements are on the way'

"...Republicans sent a message to Israel on Tuesday, telling the long-time US ally that "reinforcements are on the way", as they prepare to take total control of Washington.

"Senate Republicans reclaim the majority in six weeks, and when we do, we will make clear the United States Congress stands squarely in Israel's corner and we will help the Trump-Vance administration defend Israel and promote peace in the region," Senator John Thune told reporters on Capitol Hill..."

Source: https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/us ... n-the-way/

There is no doubt that Trump and his GOP will supply money and weapons to "defend Israel" and kill her neighbors. Even NPR is now reporting what Israel is up to with its sniper drones, picking off and murdering Gazan civilians with her sniper drones.

https://www.wqln.org/2024-11-19/witness ... -civilians


sniper drones in Gaza and
they're shooting civilians
NPR
By Kat Lonsdorf
Published November 19, 2024

JUANA SUMMERS, HOST:

Last week British surgeon Nizam Mamode testified in front of a committee in the U.K. Parliament.

NIZAM MAMODE: What I think I found particularly disturbing...

SUMMERS: Dr. Mamode had recently returned from working at a hospital in Central Gaza, and he told parliamentary members what he witnessed, including...

MAMODE: A bomb would drop, maybe on a crowded, tented area. And then the drones would come down, and...

SUMMERS: A new kind of drone in the Israeli arsenal, one with a gun and a camera attached that can shoot remotely.

MAMODE: So the drones would come down and pick off civilians, children. And we had description after description. This is not, you know, an occasional thing. This was day after day after day.

SUMMERS: For months, NPR has been collecting eyewitness accounts from Gaza that corroborate Dr. Mamode's testimony, saying the Israeli military has been using sniper drone technology and that they're shooting civilians, NPR's Kat Lonsdorf reports. And a warning - this piece includes the sound of gunfire.

KAT LONSDORF, BYLINE: Thirty-seven-year-old Fatma Daama is a freelance journalist from Jabalia in Northern Gaza. It's an area that has been besieged by Israeli forces since early October. Daama sent NPR voice notes from her home there on October 9.

FATMA DAAMA: (Non-English language spoken).

LONSDORF: "Hi. How are you," she starts.

DAAMA: (Non-English language spoken).

LONSDORF: "Israeli tanks are closing in," she says, "and the army is nearby." Suddenly, she's interrupted.

DAAMA: (Speaking Arabic).

LONSDORF: "Hear that," she says. "That's the quadcopter." It's what many in Gaza call the small, hovering drone with a rifle mounted underneath.

DAAMA: (Speaking Arabic).

LONSDORF: "If I try to go closer to the door to get better service," she says, "the quadcopter starts shooting, and I have to go back inside. It's very dangerous."

DAAMA: (Speaking Arabic).

LONSDORF: "The town is under siege by the shooting quadcopter drones," she says. "No one can move." For months, NPR has collected accounts for more than a dozen people in Gaza who say they've seen these sniper drones and that they've seen them used to shoot and sometimes kill civilians.

ADIP SHAQFA: (Speaking Arabic).

LONSDORF: Fifty-five-year-old Adib Shaqfa says he was walking with his 32-year-old son on May 31 in Rafah in Southern Gaza.

SHAQFA: (Speaking Arabic).

LONSDORF: Shaqfa says it was a quiet day. There was no fighting nearby when suddenly...

SHAQFA: (Speaking Arabic).

LONSDORF: ...A drone appeared and shot his son, who was walking up ahead. He says two men rushed in to help his son, and they were also shot.

SHAQFA: (Speaking Arabic).

LONSDORF: Two older women nearby were also shot in the head, he says. Shaqfa says the women were killed. So was his son. The Israeli military told NPR it's unaware of this incident and that any suggestion that it intends to harm civilians is unfounded and baseless. NPR also asked the Israeli military repeatedly if it was using the sniper drone technology in Gaza. It did not respond to the question.

SETH JONES: Israel, frankly, like many militaries, is very cautious about what kinds of information it provides about its operations and tactics that it uses.

LONSDORF: Seth Jones is president of the Defense and Security Department at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.

JONES: But it also makes it more difficult for everyday Israelis or journalists or other researchers to understand how these things are being used.

LONSDORF: Further complicating that understanding, until recently, Israel had a censorship law in place forbidding the media from reporting on armed drone use by the military. And it's something most journalists can't witness with their own eyes. Israel has not allowed outside journalists independent access to Gaza since the war began more than a year ago. But we do know that this sniper drone technology exists and that the Israeli military has it. This is a video from 2018 by Duke Robotics Incorporated...

UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: Duke Robotics presents...

LONSDORF: ...For a small drone they call...

UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: ...TIKAD...

LONSDORF: ...TIKAD...

UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: ...The future soldier.

LONSDORF: ...Which can be outfitted with several different firearms...

UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: Robots are replacing combat soldiers.

LONSDORF: ...And shoot while it hovers, adjusting for the recoil of the weapon.

UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: The company is in the process of implementing orders from Israeli forces.

LONSDORF: Duke Robotics is based in Florida in the U.S. but was established by veterans of several Israeli special forces units. Around that same time, Israel's defense ministry released a video showing off new technology, including soldiers controlling one of Duke's sniper drones remotely and firing at targets at an outdoor shooting range. Then in 2021, Duke Robotics joined with an Israeli company, Elbit Systems, specifically to further develop the TIKAD drone and market it globally. And there are other sniper drones in the market, too, also by Israeli companies.

In 2022, a company called SMARTSHOOTER based in Northern Israel announced a drone called SMASH Dragon. In this YouTube video posted by the company, a small drone with a rifle barrel attached takes flight. The video then zooms in through the viewfinder to show the drone locking in on a human-shaped target before taking a shot. SMARTSHOOTER denies that their SMASH Dragon drone is being used by the Israeli military, but Israeli forces have touted using their technology in the past, and other products by the company are partially funded by Israel's defense ministry research and development. On SMARTSHOOTER's website, it says it uses artificial intelligence and machine learning technology to provide, quote, "one-shot, one-hit precision."

JAMES ROGERS: I would argue we're reaching a point where there are increasingly diminished human oversight over the practice of killing in war and also the decision-making process around who lives or dies.

LONSDORF: James Rogers is an expert on drone warfare and emerging technologies at Cornell University. He points out that precision can be good. But...

ROGERS: No matter how precise your weapon systems are, if your intelligence is wrong, then all that precision, that guaranteed destruction of the target means is the guaranteed death of the wrong person.

AHMED MOGHRABI: The gunshot of the quadcopter has a special sound.

LONSDORF: Dr. Ahmed Moghrabi is a head surgeon at Nasser Hospital in Central Gaza. He says he's treated many people shot by the sniper quadcopter drone.

MOGHRABI: They used to shoot at the displaced people inside the hospital, and they killed many people, actually.

LONSDORF: Back in early February, Nasser Hospital was a focus of the Israeli military, saying Hamas fighters were hiding there. On February 1, Dr. Moghrabi says he and his coworker, a male nurse, stepped out onto a balcony after finishing a long surgery.

MOGHRABI: The quadcopter actually shoot at my nurse friend beside me.

LONSDORF: A drone shot the nurse in the chest.

MOGHRABI: They shooted (ph) at us. (Non-English language spoken).

LONSDORF: Dr. Moghrabi sent us a video he filmed that day. Colleagues rushed the nurse into an operating room as blood blooms around a bullet wound on his right chest.

MOGHRABI: (Non-English language spoken).

UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: (Non-English language spoken).

MOGHRABI: (Non-English language spoken).

LONSDORF: "Quickly, quickly," Dr. Moghrabi says as others cut away the nurse's clothing to operate. The nurse survived. The Israeli military told NPR it was unaware of this incident as well.

Here are just a few of the other stories we heard. Several people we talked to in Beit Lahia in the north described sniper drones recently shooting at civilians as they rushed to help pull people from the rubble after an Israeli airstrike leveled a building full of families. One man said a sniper drone entered his house with his family inside, started shooting, forcing them to flee. One doctor from the U.K. described sniper drones firing on people as they tried to enter a hospital in Gaza city, where he was working. He told NPR he saw more than 20 injuries in one day from the drones, including one child shot in the neck, who later died.

Although there's been very little reporting on these drones, people in Gaza talk about them a lot. Most people we talked to brought up these attacks offhandedly. Sniper drones seem to have become so common in the war. And as Seth Jones points out, once technology exists, it rarely goes away.

JONES: The reality is this is an evolution in the character of war. So I don't think we're going to turn around and go the other direction.

LONSDORF: This might very well be the future of warfare. Kat Lonsdorf, NPR News, Tel Aviv. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.

[JohnUbele]

US Republicans tell Israel 'reinforcements are on the way'

"...Republicans sent a message to Israel on Tuesday, telling the long-time US ally that "reinforcements are on the way", as they prepare to take total control of Washington.

"Senate Republicans reclaim the majority in six weeks, and when we do, we will make clear the United States Congress stands squarely in Israel's corner and we will help the Trump-Vance administration defend Israel and promote peace in the region," Senator John Thune told reporters on Capitol Hill..."

Source: https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/us ... n-the-way/

There is no doubt that Trump and his GOP will supply money and weapons to "defend Israel" and kill her neighbors. Even NPR is now reporting what Israel is up to with its sniper drones, picking off and murdering Gazan civilians with her sniper drones.

https://www.wqln.org/2024-11-19/witness ... -civilians


sniper drones in Gaza and
they're shooting civilians
NPR
By Kat Lonsdorf
Published November 19, 2024

JUANA SUMMERS, HOST:

Last week British surgeon Nizam Mamode testified in front of a committee in the U.K. Parliament.

NIZAM MAMODE: What I think I found particularly disturbing...

SUMMERS: Dr. Mamode had recently returned from working at a hospital in Central Gaza, and he told parliamentary members what he witnessed, including...

MAMODE: A bomb would drop, maybe on a crowded, tented area. And then the drones would come down, and...

SUMMERS: A new kind of drone in the Israeli arsenal, one with a gun and a camera attached that can shoot remotely.

MAMODE: So the drones would come down and pick off civilians, children. And we had description after description. This is not, you know, an occasional thing. This was day after day after day.

SUMMERS: For months, NPR has been collecting eyewitness accounts from Gaza that corroborate Dr. Mamode's testimony, saying the Israeli military has been using sniper drone technology and that they're shooting civilians, NPR's Kat Lonsdorf reports. And a warning - this piece includes the sound of gunfire.

KAT LONSDORF, BYLINE: Thirty-seven-year-old Fatma Daama is a freelance journalist from Jabalia in Northern Gaza. It's an area that has been besieged by Israeli forces since early October. Daama sent NPR voice notes from her home there on October 9.

FATMA DAAMA: (Non-English language spoken).

LONSDORF: "Hi. How are you," she starts.

DAAMA: (Non-English language spoken).

LONSDORF: "Israeli tanks are closing in," she says, "and the army is nearby." Suddenly, she's interrupted.

DAAMA: (Speaking Arabic).

LONSDORF: "Hear that," she says. "That's the quadcopter." It's what many in Gaza call the small, hovering drone with a rifle mounted underneath.

DAAMA: (Speaking Arabic).

LONSDORF: "If I try to go closer to the door to get better service," she says, "the quadcopter starts shooting, and I have to go back inside. It's very dangerous."

DAAMA: (Speaking Arabic).

LONSDORF: "The town is under siege by the shooting quadcopter drones," she says. "No one can move." For months, NPR has collected accounts for more than a dozen people in Gaza who say they've seen these sniper drones and that they've seen them used to shoot and sometimes kill civilians.

ADIP SHAQFA: (Speaking Arabic).

LONSDORF: Fifty-five-year-old Adib Shaqfa says he was walking with his 32-year-old son on May 31 in Rafah in Southern Gaza.

SHAQFA: (Speaking Arabic).

LONSDORF: Shaqfa says it was a quiet day. There was no fighting nearby when suddenly...

SHAQFA: (Speaking Arabic).

LONSDORF: ...A drone appeared and shot his son, who was walking up ahead. He says two men rushed in to help his son, and they were also shot.

SHAQFA: (Speaking Arabic).

LONSDORF: Two older women nearby were also shot in the head, he says. Shaqfa says the women were killed. So was his son. The Israeli military told NPR it's unaware of this incident and that any suggestion that it intends to harm civilians is unfounded and baseless. NPR also asked the Israeli military repeatedly if it was using the sniper drone technology in Gaza. It did not respond to the question.

SETH JONES: Israel, frankly, like many militaries, is very cautious about what kinds of information it provides about its operations and tactics that it uses.

LONSDORF: Seth Jones is president of the Defense and Security Department at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.

JONES: But it also makes it more difficult for everyday Israelis or journalists or other researchers to understand how these things are being used.

LONSDORF: Further complicating that understanding, until recently, Israel had a censorship law in place forbidding the media from reporting on armed drone use by the military. And it's something most journalists can't witness with their own eyes. Israel has not allowed outside journalists independent access to Gaza since the war began more than a year ago. But we do know that this sniper drone technology exists and that the Israeli military has it. This is a video from 2018 by Duke Robotics Incorporated...

UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: Duke Robotics presents...

LONSDORF: ...For a small drone they call...

UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: ...TIKAD...

LONSDORF: ...TIKAD...

UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: ...The future soldier.

LONSDORF: ...Which can be outfitted with several different firearms...

UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: Robots are replacing combat soldiers.

LONSDORF: ...And shoot while it hovers, adjusting for the recoil of the weapon.

UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: The company is in the process of implementing orders from Israeli forces.

LONSDORF: Duke Robotics is based in Florida in the U.S. but was established by veterans of several Israeli special forces units. Around that same time, Israel's defense ministry released a video showing off new technology, including soldiers controlling one of Duke's sniper drones remotely and firing at targets at an outdoor shooting range. Then in 2021, Duke Robotics joined with an Israeli company, Elbit Systems, specifically to further develop the TIKAD drone and market it globally. And there are other sniper drones in the market, too, also by Israeli companies.

In 2022, a company called SMARTSHOOTER based in Northern Israel announced a drone called SMASH Dragon. In this YouTube video posted by the company, a small drone with a rifle barrel attached takes flight. The video then zooms in through the viewfinder to show the drone locking in on a human-shaped target before taking a shot. SMARTSHOOTER denies that their SMASH Dragon drone is being used by the Israeli military, but Israeli forces have touted using their technology in the past, and other products by the company are partially funded by Israel's defense ministry research and development. On SMARTSHOOTER's website, it says it uses artificial intelligence and machine learning technology to provide, quote, "one-shot, one-hit precision."

JAMES ROGERS: I would argue we're reaching a point where there are increasingly diminished human oversight over the practice of killing in war and also the decision-making process around who lives or dies.

LONSDORF: James Rogers is an expert on drone warfare and emerging technologies at Cornell University. He points out that precision can be good. But...

ROGERS: No matter how precise your weapon systems are, if your intelligence is wrong, then all that precision, that guaranteed destruction of the target means is the guaranteed death of the wrong person.

AHMED MOGHRABI: The gunshot of the quadcopter has a special sound.

LONSDORF: Dr. Ahmed Moghrabi is a head surgeon at Nasser Hospital in Central Gaza. He says he's treated many people shot by the sniper quadcopter drone.

MOGHRABI: They used to shoot at the displaced people inside the hospital, and they killed many people, actually.

LONSDORF: Back in early February, Nasser Hospital was a focus of the Israeli military, saying Hamas fighters were hiding there. On February 1, Dr. Moghrabi says he and his coworker, a male nurse, stepped out onto a balcony after finishing a long surgery.

MOGHRABI: The quadcopter actually shoot at my nurse friend beside me.

LONSDORF: A drone shot the nurse in the chest.

MOGHRABI: They shooted (ph) at us. (Non-English language spoken).

LONSDORF: Dr. Moghrabi sent us a video he filmed that day. Colleagues rushed the nurse into an operating room as blood blooms around a bullet wound on his right chest.

MOGHRABI: (Non-English language spoken).

UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: (Non-English language spoken).

MOGHRABI: (Non-English language spoken).

LONSDORF: "Quickly, quickly," Dr. Moghrabi says as others cut away the nurse's clothing to operate. The nurse survived. The Israeli military told NPR it was unaware of this incident as well.

Here are just a few of the other stories we heard. Several people we talked to in Beit Lahia in the north described sniper drones recently shooting at civilians as they rushed to help pull people from the rubble after an Israeli airstrike leveled a building full of families. One man said a sniper drone entered his house with his family inside, started shooting, forcing them to flee. One doctor from the U.K. described sniper drones firing on people as they tried to enter a hospital in Gaza city, where he was working. He told NPR he saw more than 20 injuries in one day from the drones, including one child shot in the neck, who later died.

Although there's been very little reporting on these drones, people in Gaza talk about them a lot. Most people we talked to brought up these attacks offhandedly. Sniper drones seem to have become so common in the war. And as Seth Jones points out, once technology exists, it rarely goes away.

JONES: The reality is this is an evolution in the character of war. So I don't think we're going to turn around and go the other direction.

LONSDORF: This might very well be the future of warfare. Kat Lonsdorf, NPR News, Tel Aviv. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.

Hello Mr. Williams.

Thank you very much for posting the NPR story. This is the first time I've read or heard anything about these types of drones. I think for the Jews, they're going to genocide as many Palestinians as they can for as long as they can.

I sincerely hope that Hezbollah will be able to hit Israel much more and much harder in the near future.

[JohnUbele]

Hezbollah to target Tel Aviv in response to Israeli attacks on Beirut: Sheikh Qassem

"...The leader of Hezbollah says the Lebanese resistance movement is prepared to fight a long war against Israel, and that their response to the recent deadly airstrikes on Beirut will be to target central Tel Aviv.

Sheikh Naim Qassem made the remarks in a televised address on Wednesday, referring to deadly Israeli strikes on three central Beirut districts in recent days, one of which martyred Hezbollah's media chief Mohammad Afif and four members of his team.

Sheikh Qassem stated that the regime martyred Afif while he was in a civilian, media, and political location that is supposed to be protected in such cases"..."

Source:
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/11/2 ... viv-Qassem

[JohnUbele]

ICC issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant for war crimes

"...The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former minister of military affairs Yoav Gallant over war crimes against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

The court’s Pre-Trial Chamber I issued warrants of arrest for Netanyahu and Gallant "for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed from at least 8 October 2023 until at least 20 May 2024, the day the Prosecution filed the applications for warrants of arrest”, it confirmed in a statement Thursday.

It is the first instance in the court's 22-year history it has issued arrest warrants for Western-allied senior officials..."

"...All 124 states that signed the Rome Statute, the treaty that established the court, are now under an obligation to arrest the wanted individuals and hand them over to the ICC in the Hague.

The court relies on the cooperation of member states to arrest and surrender suspects. The Netherlands' foreign minister quickly said his country was prepared to enforce the warrants while 93 nations earlier reiterated their support for the ICC..."

Source:
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/11/2 ... rant-Gaza-

[JohnUbele]

ICC issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant for war crimes

"...The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former minister of military affairs Yoav Gallant over war crimes against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

The court’s Pre-Trial Chamber I issued warrants of arrest for Netanyahu and Gallant "for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed from at least 8 October 2023 until at least 20 May 2024, the day the Prosecution filed the applications for warrants of arrest”, it confirmed in a statement Thursday.

It is the first instance in the court's 22-year history it has issued arrest warrants for Western-allied senior officials..."

"...All 124 states that signed the Rome Statute, the treaty that established the court, are now under an obligation to arrest the wanted individuals and hand them over to the ICC in the Hague.

The court relies on the cooperation of member states to arrest and surrender suspects. The Netherlands' foreign minister quickly said his country was prepared to enforce the warrants while 93 nations earlier reiterated their support for the ICC..."

Source:
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/11/2 ... rant-Gaza-

The States Parties to the Rome Statute

"...124 countries are States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Out of them 33 are African States, 19 are Asia-Pacific States, 19 are from Eastern Europe, 28 are from Latin American and Caribbean States, and 25 are from Western European and other States..."

Source:
https://asp.icc-cpi.int/states-parties