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The prosecutor at the International Criminal Court has requested an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Gallant as well as against three Hamas leaders.
The chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court based in The Hague says he has requested arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his Defense Minister Joaw Gallant and three leaders of the militant Islamist Hamas.
Prosecutor Karim Khan said he believes Netanyahu, Gallant and Hamas leaders are responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip and Israel in connection with the more than seven-month war in the Middle East.
“Accountability must be given for actions”
Regarding Israel’s actions, Khan’s statement said that “the impact of the use of starvation as a method of warfare, along with other attacks and collective punishments against the civilian population in Gaza, is acute, visible and widely known.” These included “malnutrition, dehydration, deep suffering and a growing number of deaths among the Palestinian population, including babies, other children and women.”
On the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel that sparked the war, he said he had seen with his own eyes “the devastating scenes of those attacks and the profound impact of the unconscionable crimes cited in the applications filed today.”
In conversations with survivors, he learned “how the love within a family, the deepest bonds between parents and children, were distorted to cause unimaginable pain through calculated cruelty and extreme callousness. Accountability must be given for these acts.”