The International Criminal Court is seeking arrest warrants for its leader Hamas Yahya Sinwar and the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on charges of war crimes and crimes once morest humanity for the October 7 attacks on Israel and the ensuing war in Gaza, the court’s chief prosecutor Karim Khan told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an exclusive interview Monday.
Karim Khan also clarified that the International Criminal Court is also seeking warrants for Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallad, as well as two other top Hamas leaders, namely political leader Ismail Haniya and the head of the Al-Qassem Brigades, Mohammed Diab Ibrahim al-Masri. .
The inclusion of Israeli politicians in the request marks the first time the International Criminal Court has targeted the leader of a country that is a close US ally.
Benjamin Netanyahu joins the “club” of Russian President Vladimir Putin, for whom the International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for the invasion and war in Ukraine.
Now, a panel of judges at the International Criminal Court will consider Khan’s application for the arrest warrants.
Heavy accusations once morest Hamas leaders
Khan said the charges once morest Sinwar, Haniya and al-Masri include “extermination, murder, hostage-taking, rape and sexual assault while in custody.”
“The world was shocked on October 7 when people were uprooted from their bedrooms, from their homes, from the various kibbutzim in Israel,” Khan told Amanpour, adding that “people suffered a lot.”
The accusations once morest Netanyahu and Gallad
The charges once morest Netanyahu and Gallad include “inciting extermination, inciting starvation as a method of war, including denying humanitarian aid, deliberately targeting civilians in conflicts.”
According to protothema, the development comes following reports last month that the Court’s chief prosecutor was considering the International Court of Justice’s steps. For his part, Netanyahu had stated that any arrest warrants issued by The Hague once morest senior Israeli government and military officials “would be an insult of historic proportions” and that Israel “has an independent legal system that rigorously investigates all violations of its law”.
“No one is above the law,” Khan said when asked by Amanpour, adding that if Israel disagrees with the International Criminal Court they are free, despite jurisdictional objections, to challenge it before its judges. court.
Israel and the United States are not members of the International Criminal Court. However, the ICC maintains that it has jurisdiction over Gaza, East Jerusalem and the West Bank following Palestinian leaders formally agreed to be bound by the court’s founding principles in 2015.
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