CAIRO- 21 November 2024: The White House rejected the International Criminal Court's decision to issue arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamine Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
“The United States fundamentally rejects the Court’s decision to issue arrest warrants for senior Israeli officials. We remain deeply concerned by the Prosecutor’s rush to seek arrest warrants and the troubling process errors that led to this decision,” White House National Security Council spokesperson said on Thursday, adding the U.S. is discussing next steps with its partners.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued on Thursday an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamine Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
The Pre-trial Chamber 1 of the ICC issued on Thursday the arrest warrant against Netanyahu and Gallant for commuting “crimes against humanity and war crimes committed from at least 8 October 2023 until at least 20 May 2024, the day the Prosecution filed the applications for warrants of arrest.”
“The Chamber found reasonable grounds to believe that Mr Netanyahu, born on 21 October 1949, Prime Minister of Israel at the time of the relevant conduct, and Mr Gallant, born on 8 November 1958, Minister of Defence of Israel at the time of the alleged conduct, each bear criminal responsibility for the following crimes as co-perpetrators for committing the acts jointly with others: the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare; and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts,” the court said in a statement.
In a statement, the Hamas movement welcomed the court’s decision and call d for expanding the scope of accountability against the Israeli officials over war crimes against the Palestinians.
The movement added that this step “constitutes an important historical precedent, and a correction to a long path of historical injustice against our people.”
The Iraqi government on the other hand, praised ‘the courageous and just decision’ taken by the International Criminal Court, by issuing two arrest warrants against Netanyahu, and his former Defense Minister Yoav Galant.
The Iraqi government confirmed in a statement that this historic decision confirms that no matter how much injustice persists and tries to continue, justice and truth will stand in its way and prevent it from prevailing in the world.
“The decision is also a justness for the blood of the innocent and martyrs who have been killed during the criminal war that has been waging for more than a year on Gaza and Lebanon.” The statement read.
Iraq demanded implementing the decision and handing over those wanted to the competent courts so that they may receive their punishment for the flagrant violations against humanity they have committed.
Josep Borrell, the European Union's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, said that the arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court are binding for all EU member states.
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