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| ICC chief prosecutor seeks arrests for Netanyahu, Gallant and Hamas chiefs |
| 2024-05-20 |
| [JPost] "Today.. we’ve applied for warrants to the pre-trial chamber of the ICC in relation to three individuals that are Hamas members," Khan said. The International Criminal Court Chief is seeking arrest warrants for Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Ismail Haniyeh, and Mohammed Deif, its Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan told CNN's Christiane Amanpour in an exclusive interview on Monday. "Today.. we’ve applied for warrants to the pre-trial chamber of the ICC in relation to three individuals that are Hamas members," Khan said. "Sinwar who’s in charge on the ground... Deif, who’s in charge of the Al Qassam Brigade and Haniyeh who is [in charge of their] political bureau based in Doha," Khan said. His words ended the speculation about whether the ICC would issue such warrants, a step that its pre-trail chamber must still approve. The charges against the Hamas leaders are "extermination, murder, taking of hostages, rape and sexual assault in detention," he said, adding that these are "the key crimes that are alleged to have been committed by these three individuals." The world was shocked by Hamas’s October 7 attack against Israel, he said, as he referred to the event in which over 1,200 people were killed, and another 252 were seized as hostages, of which 128 remain in captivity. "People were ripped from their bedrooms, from their homes, from the different Kibbutzim in Israel. "People have suffered enormously, and we have a variety of evidence to support the applications that we've submitted to the judges," Khan stated. The Chief Prosecutor also laid out the charges in the arrest warrant for Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for their role in the Gaza war. Hamas has claimed that over 35,000 Palestinians have been killed in that conflict, varying close to 25,000 of those deaths. Israel has said that 15,000 of those fatalities are combatants. Khan said that the charges against the Israeli Prime Minister are "extermination, causing starvation as a method of war including the denial of humanitarian relief supplies [and] deliberately targeting civilians in conflict."His applications for warrants come as the International Court of Justice is adjudicating South Africa’s accusations that Israel was in violation of the 1948 genocide convention. |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #6 Israel should declare the ICC a terrorist organization whose members are subject to personal kinetic removal. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2024-05-20 15:41 |
| #5 ^Biden calls ICC arrest warrant request for Israeli leaders 'outrageous' |
| Posted by: Grom the reflective 2024-05-20 14:50 |
| #4 It it really conceivable that the ICC would do this without the approval of the US administration (and assurances that this administration will stay in place for the foreseeable future)? |
| Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2024-05-20 12:07 |
| #3 I think we can all agree that Bibi is guilty of standing up for Israel which is a crime in the eyes of the Globalists. Question: the International Clown Court is always making news about issuing warrants. Does anything ever actually happen after that? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2024-05-20 08:56 |
| #2 'ICC is like voodoo, its power depends on your belief' "Practically, it does not mean much - though Bibi and Gallant will have to think twice before travelling to some European countries. Diplomatically, it is an attempt to create moral equivalence between Hamas and Israel." I blame Vlad - when ICC issued warrant against him, he should've had them whacked. |
| Posted by: Grom the reflective 2024-05-20 08:56 |
| #1 Globalist/Islamist alliance in action -promoting fake moral equivalence. |
| Posted by: Grom the reflective 2024-05-20 08:46 |