The Worldwide Felony Court docket (ICC) rejected challenges from Israel and issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Protection Minister Yoav Gallant on Thursday.
The ICC charged Netanyahu and Gallant with “crimes towards humanity and battle crimes,” together with utilizing hunger as a technique of warfare and focusing on civilians. Israeli President Isaac Herzog condemned the transfer in a press release on Thursday.
“Taken in dangerous religion, the outrageous choice on the ICC has turned common justice right into a common laughingstock. It makes a mockery of the sacrifice of all those that combat for justice – from the Allied victory over the Nazis until as we speak,” Herzog wrote.
Herzog argued that the ICC’s choice 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.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and former Protection Minister Yoav Gallant now face arrest warrants from the Worldwide Felony Court docket. (Reuters/Pool)
“Certainly, the choice has chosen the facet of terror and evil over democracy and freedom, and turned the very system of justice right into a human defend for Hamas’ crimes towards humanity,” he added. “This cynical exploitation of the worldwide authorized establishments reminds us as soon as once more of the necessity for true ethical readability within the face of an Iranian empire of evil that seeks to destabilize our area and the world, and destroy the very establishments of the free world.”
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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 court docket stated it may challenge the arrest warrants as a part of the “territorial jurisdication of Palestine.”
Israel additionally made different procedural challenges, however they had been rejected.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog condemned the ICC for issuing arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Protection Minister Yoav Gallant. (AP/Ben Curtis)
The ICC’s transfer comes simply days after Senate Majority Chief-elect John Thune threatened to hit the court docket with sanctions if it moved ahead with the arrest warrants.
Thune – who was chosen final week to be the following Senate majority chief as soon as the GOP takes the higher chamber come January 2025 – warned that if the present Democratic chief doesn’t tackle the worldwide court docket, he’ll.
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“If the ICC and its prosecutor don’t reverse their outrageous and illegal actions to pursue arrest warrants towards Israeli officers, the Senate ought to instantly cross sanctions laws, because the Home has already finished on a bipartisan foundation,” Thune wrote on X. “If Majority Chief Schumer doesn’t act, the Senate Republican majority will stand with our key ally Israel and make this – and different supportive laws – a prime precedence within the subsequent Congress.”
(Sen. John Thune, proper, urged Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer to take motion towards the ICC.)
The U.S. doesn’t formally acknowledge the ICC’s authority, however it’s not the primary time Washington has regarded to halt the court docket’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.
President Biden’s administration undid these sanctions shortly after getting into workplace.
