REPORTING. "You can’t put Netanyahu and Hamas in the same basket" : Israelis unite after arrest warrants requested from the ICC
This is the first time that a leader of a democracy and ally of the Americans has been the subject of a request for an international arrest warrant. The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) requested on Monday May 20 arrest warrants against the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
ICC prosecutor Karim Khan said he had requested arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for crimes including “deliberately starving civilians,” intentional homicide” and “extermination and/or murder”. The accusations against Hamas leaders also targeted by this request for arrest warrants, notably its leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinouar, include “extermination”, “rape and other forms of sexual violence” and “the hostage-taking as a war crime.
However, we will have to wait several weeks for the decision of the judges of the preliminary chamber of the ICC to know whether these mandates will be applied. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as his Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, could then be placed under house arrest. If this is the case, the more than 120 countries which have ratified the Treaty of Rome will then have the obligation to hand it over to international justice. A shock in Israel where the population stands behind its Prime Minister, who is nevertheless very unpopular.
The Israeli Prime Minister “rejected with disgust the Hague prosecutor’s comparison between Israel“, country “democratic“, And “Hamas mass murderers“. His Foreign Minister, Israel Katz, castigated a “scandalous decision” And “a historic dishonor” for the court in The Hague. And, everywhere in Israel, we see the same indignation and the same argument in the streets: “You cannot put the name of Bibi in the same basket as that of Sinouar and the other leaders of Hamas!”denounces a passerby.
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