Urgent.. Member of Knesset: The International Criminal Court’s decision regarding Netanyahu and Gallant is correct
Israeli Knesset member Ofer Cassif described, on Monday, the announcement by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court seeking to issue arrest warrants against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Galant as a "correct and expected decision". p>
Waksif is a member of the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (a Jewish-Arab party), and the Knesset (Parliament) had previously failed to isolate him due to his anti-war positions.
Kassif said in a post on the X platform: “The decision of the Criminal Court in The Hague was expected and correct.”
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He added that “it is reasonable to believe that Netanyahu and Gallant bear criminal responsibility for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.”
He stressed that “no person or body may be above international law or the rules of justice and global morality.”
On February 19, the Israeli right failed to remove Kassif for supporting South Africa’s lawsuit before the International Court of Justice, which accuses Tel Aviv of By committing crimes of “genocide” In Gaza.
At that time, a proposal submitted by right-wing representatives in the Knesset to dismiss Kassif was supported by 85 representatives (out of 120 in the Knesset), and he did not receive a vote. The necessary majority (90 votes) to oust him.
Earlier Monday, International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan announced that they are seeking to issue a Arrest warrants against Netanyahu, Gallant, and three Hamas leaders, on charges of committing “war crimes.”
Khan’s statements were met with intense anger and denunciation in Israel, to the extent that Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich threatened the criminal court in The Hague, Netherlands, that “arrest warrants will be the final nail in dismantling this political and anti-Semitic court.” As he claimed.
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