ICC Issues Arrest Warrant against Netanyahu and Gallant: The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Defense Minister Yoav Galant. The Hague-based World Court has issued this warrant against Israeli leaders for war crimes committed during the conflict in Gaza and Lebanon, where it is at war with Hamas and Hezbollah.
The International Criminal Court has also ordered the arrest of Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif, calling him a war criminal. In an official statement, the World Court said that “the Chamber has issued this warrant holding two individuals, Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Galant, responsible for war crimes.”
These allegations have been leveled against Israel’s PM
In simple terms, the ICC has charged Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant with crimes against humanity, including murder, torture and inhumane acts, as well as the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare. Is.
Israel rejected the allegations
Israel has rejected the allegations leveled against its leaders by the ICC. Israel says that such a decision does not come under the jurisdiction of ICC. Israel’s leading opposition leader Yair Lipid also condemned the order, calling it a reward for terrorism.
Benjamin Netanyahu responded
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave his reaction a few hours after the ICC decision. “The anti-Semitism judgment of the International Court of Justice in The Hague is a modern Dreyfus trial and it will end the same way,” he said in a video message on his X handle. The Dreyfus trial, which Netanyahu referred to in his video message attacking the ICC, was a political and judicial scandal that took place in France between 1894 and 1906, in which a Jewish French army officer named Alfred Dreyfus was accused of leaking military secrets to the Germans. Sell was wrongly convicted of alleged treason. He was later found not guilty and reinstated in the French Army.
Also denied the allegations of starvation
Netanyahu added, “Now at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, also led by a French judge, this outrageous crime is being repeated. It is upon me, Yoav Galant, the democratically elected Prime Minister of the State of Israel and former Defense Minister But it is falsely accused of deliberately targeting civilians. This is when we do everything in our power to avoid civilian casualties.” Netanyahu refuted this claim, saying that while Israel has served 700,000 tons of food to the citizens of Gaza, the ICC is falsely accusing them of deliberately starving the people.
What is ICC?
The ICC is headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands, which was established under the 1998 treaty. This treaty is also known as “Rome Statute”. It investigates and, where necessary, prosecutes individuals accused of the most serious crimes of concern to the international community: genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and crimes of aggression. Currently, 124 countries are parties to the Rome Statute, including Britain, Japan, Afghanistan and Germany. India, China and America are not its members.
The ICC was established to prosecute the most heinous crimes when a country’s own legal machinery is unable or unwilling to act. Unlike the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which deals with inter-state and inter-state disputes, the ICC prosecutes individuals.
ICC does not have the power to arrest
The ICC has issued this warrant, but it does not have the powers to arrest the suspects. He can exercise his authority only in those countries which have signed the agreement establishing this court.
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