Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday called the International Criminal Court a "political body" after it said it had jurisdiction over the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories. "The tribunal has, once again, proved that it is a political body and not a judicial institution," Netanyahu said in a statement, adding the decision undermined the "right of democracies to defend themselves against terrorism". The ICC's ruling Friday paves the way for the tribunal's prosecutor to potentially open a war crimes investigation. gl-dms/pjm/lg