Netanyahu arrest warrant sought for Gaza ‘war crimes’

Credit: International Criminal Court.

The International Criminal Court is seeking arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, and Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader, on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Karim Khan KC, the ICC’s chief prosecutor, told CNN that the charges related to the Oct 7 attacks on Israel and the subsequent war in Gaza.

The ICC is also seeking warrants for Yoav Gallant, Israel’s defence minister, and two other top Hamas leaders.

The charges against Mr Netanyahu and Mr Gallant include “causing extermination, causing starvation as a method of war, including the denial of humanitarian relief supplies, deliberately targeting civilians in conflict,” Mr Khan said.

Israel is not a member of the ICC and disputes its jurisdiction.

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[DumbChosenUndead]

Bro still using holocaust as an excuse to commite war crimes...

[shrramgoelam]

Stop using a old genocide to justify a new one. Never again is for everyone

[muhammad-bin-american]

Why not Biden and his henchmen like Blinken and Austin?

[ouiss]

We'll see now how the senators who threatened icc members and their families will react

[dreewhispers]

the Telegraph is a joke, why cut the speech into the middle where he just finished describing the horrors that I$rahel has inflicted up on Gaza.

[lawrencestoke]

What Israel is saying is that they know what British and US troops did in Iraq and Afghanistan. No one sent Bush or Blair to the ICC but look at the number of civilian deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan. Where was the ICC then?

[FEARPHYSIC]

It’s funny how Netanyahu references the holocaust yet he commits the same crimes 😂

[Independent_Muslim]

Tell Netanyahu that if he doesn't want to be accused of war crimes, don't commit them

[tynnon]

netanyahu ignored and divert the accusation, typical of a real criminal, like trump

[MrDastardly]

What about the ‘leaders’ within the American & British regimes?
Is there less liability in supplying the bombs only & letting others drop them?
The selective reasoning is pathetic.

[myhrre]

No, Israel Does Not Have the Right to Self-Defense In International Law Against Occupied Palestinian Territory!
Occupation Law prohibits an occupying power from initiating armed force against its occupied territory.
By mere virtue of the existence of military occupation, an armed attack,
including one consistent with the UN Charter, has already occurred and been concluded.
Therefore the right of self-defense in international law is, by definition since 1967,
not available to Israel with respect to its dealings with real or perceived threats
emanating from the West Bank and Gaza Strip population.
To achieve its security goals, Israel can resort to no more than the police powers,
or the exceptional use of militarized force, vested in it by IHL.
This is not to say that Israel cannot defend itself—but those defensive measures
can neither take the form of warfare nor be justified as self-defense in international law.

[DezorianGuy]

The US, germany, Britain are complicit sadly by ignoring the UN advice and assessments in favor of simply following ideology. It damaged the reputation of all countries involved...

[doopdapps]

They're not even the real Jews living in Israel now.. Original Jews were not white looking 😂😂😂

[imobend]

Add to the arrest list the other israel's minister!

[froqndu]

Hahaha. Netanyahu is not a Democratic leader. How dare he invoke the "democratic" argument.

[sapphyrus]

Even if it won't come to pass, imagining all those together as cellmates is fantastic.

[CJ-ffxq]

Where exactly is the 'antisemitism' in calling Israel out for its war crimes? What is the relevance of the holocaust in this situation? Netanyahu is desperately grasping at straws...

[bdinaz]

Is there an arrest warrant out for Sinwar?

[whitex]

Why is "war crimes" in quotes?

[FaycalOuazine]

"I remember an incident that happened at Al-Shifa Hospital, which was bombed, This happened in November 2023, The obstetrics department was bombed, causing many deaths, Among those killed were four pregnant women about to give birth. Doctors delivered the dead pregnant women by cesarean section and rescued the newborns,
Less than an hour later, Israeli occupation forces arrived and kidnapped the four newborns, carried them and left. The next day, the four newborns were found dead in an empty lot."

- Khaled Benboutrif French doctor returning from his humanitarian mission at the European hospital in the Gaza Strip (testimony before French senators).