The Pentagon mentioned it rejects the Worldwide Legal Court docket’s (ICC) resolution to concern arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Protection Minister Yoav Gallant on Thursday.
Deputy Pentagon press secretary Sabrina Singh instructed reporters throughout a press briefing on Thursday that the U.S. “basically rejects” the ICC’s resolution to concern the arrest warrants.
“We stay involved by the prosecutor’s rush to hunt arrest warrants, and, you recognize, a number of the processes which have performed out,” Singh mentioned. “And once more, we’ve been very clear that the ICC doesn’t have jurisdiction over this matter.”
The ICC charged Netanyahu and Gallant with “crimes towards humanity and battle crimes,” together with the usage of hunger as a way of warfare and focusing on civilians.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, heart, speaks to now former Protection Minister Yoav Gallant, left, on the opening of the twenty fifth Knesset session marking the anniversary of the “Iron Swords” battle, in Jerusalem, Oct. 28. (Debbie Hill/Pool Photograph by way of AP)
President Biden blasted the courtroom’s resolution to concern arrest warrants towards the 2 senior Israeli officers.
“The ICC issuance of arrest warrants towards Israeli leaders is outrageous,” Biden mentioned. “Let me be clear as soon as once more: regardless of the ICC would possibly indicate, there isn’t any equivalence – none – between Israel and Hamas. We are going to at all times stand with Israel towards threats to its safety.”
Israeli President Isaac Herzog condemned the courtroom’s actions in an announcement on Thursday.
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Individuals survey a constructing destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, within the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Nov. 14. (AP Photograph/Hussein Malla)
“Taken in unhealthy religion, the outrageous resolution on the ICC has turned common justice right into a common laughingstock,” Herzog wrote. “It makes a mockery of the sacrifice of all those that struggle for justice – from the Allied victory over the Nazis until at present.”
Herzog argued that the ICC’s resolution ignores Hamas’ use of human shields and its Oct. 7, 2023, terror assaults that began the battle, in addition to the Israeli hostages remaining in Gaza.
Israel made a number of efforts to dam the ICC from approving the arrest warrants. They first argued that the ICC has no jurisdiction over Israel, however the courtroom mentioned it may concern the arrest warrants as a part of the “territorial jurisdiction of Palestine.”
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the 79th session of the United Nations Basic Meeting, in New York Metropolis, Sept. 27. (AP Photograph/Pamela Smith)
Israel additionally made different procedural challenges, however they had been rejected.
The ICC’s transfer comes simply days after Senate Majority Chief-elect John Thune threatened to hit the courtroom with sanctions if it moved ahead with the arrest warrants.
The U.S. doesn’t formally acknowledge the ICC’s authority, however it’s not the primary time Washington has regarded to halt the courtroom’s actions.
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In 2020, the Trump administration opposed makes an attempt by the ICC to analyze U.S. troopers and the CIA concerned in alleged battle crimes between 2003-2004 “in secret detention amenities in Afghanistan,” and issued sanctions towards ICC prosecutors.
Biden’s administration undid these sanctions shortly after coming into workplace.
Fox Information Digital’s Anders Hagstrom contributed to this report.
