The Worldwide Prison Court docket on Thursday issued arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and the previous Israeli protection minister, Yoav Gallant, for crimes towards humanity and battle crimes within the Gaza Strip.
Karim Khan, the court docket’s chief prosecutor, had requested the arrest warrants in Could for the 2 Israelis, alongside three prime Hamas officers. Israel has fiercely contested the court docket’s allegations, which embrace the usage of hunger as a weapon of battle and “deliberately directing an assault towards the civilian inhabitants.”
The court docket on Thursday additionally issued a warrant for the arrest of Mohammed Deif, Hamas’ army chief, for crimes towards humanity, together with homicide, hostage-taking and sexual violence. Israel mentioned in August that it had killed Deif. Khan had additionally sought arrest warrants for Yahya Sinwar, the chief of Hamas, and Ismail Haniyeh, one other prime determine within the militant group, each of whom have been later killed by Israel.
The warrants compounded Israel’s dwindling legitimacy on the world stage, the place it has confronted more and more fierce condemnation over its conduct of the battle towards Hamas in Gaza. Israel insists that it fights in accordance with the worldwide legal guidelines of battle.
This text initially appeared in The New York Occasions.
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