An “emergency” meeting of The Hague Group, an anti-Israel coalition of states led partially by South Africa, that convened on Wednesday, 4 March, made an official statement that it aims to ensure that there will be “no safe haven” for “perpetrators of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and the crime of aggression.”
The statement made it clear that this only applies to Israel. It said that The Hague Group aims to implement “a disclosure requirement [in Hague Group countries] regarding service in the Israeli military, subjecting travellers with Israeli travel documents or arriving from an origin of Tel Aviv Airport to potential secondary screening at ports of entry.”
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