Lebanon has moved towards accepting the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) jurisdiction to prosecute violations on Lebanese territory since October, in what Human Rights Watch has said is a “landmark step” towards justice for war crimes, Reuters reports.

Lebanon’s caretaker cabinet voted on Friday to instruct the foreign affairs ministry to file a declaration with the ICC accepting the court’s jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute crimes committed on Lebanese territory since October 7.

The decree also instructed the foreign ministry to include in its complaints about Israel to the United Nations a report prepared by the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research, an independent research institute.