Reasoning behind decision that also included warrants for former defence secretary as well as Hamas’s military leader
The international criminal court has issued an arrest warrant for Israeli PM, Benjamin Netanyahu, for alleged war crimes in Gaza.The international criminal court has issued an arrest warrant for Israeli PM, Benjamin Netanyahu, for alleged war crimes in Gaza.by the international criminal court. The court has also issued warrants for his former defence secretary, Yoav Gallant, and the Hamas military leader, Mohammed Deif.
The ICC’s three-judge panel said it had found reasonable grounds to believe that Netanyahu and Gallant “bear criminal responsibility for … the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts”. In addition the panel said there were reasonable grounds to believe they bear criminal responsibility “as civilian superiors for the war crime of intentionally directing an attack against the civilian population”.
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