International arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister

International arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister

arrest warrants and previous allegations

In an explanation published on Thursday, the court, based in the Netherlands, announced that "sufficient reasons" had been found to believe that Netanyahu was responsible for war crimes. This includes "Dareration as a means of warfare" and "crimes against humanity such as murder, persecution and other inhumane actions." These arrest warrants represent a historical precedent because Netanyahu is the first Israeli guide to be charged by an international court due to alleged acts against Palestinians as part of the 75-year conflict.

reactions to the arrest warrants

The prime minister's office rejected the arrest warrants as "absurd and anti -Semitic". In a statement it said: "Israel decides the absurd and false actions and accusations of the International Criminal Court, which is a politically biased and discriminatory body." In addition, the office emphasized that there was "no fairer war" after the terrorist Hamas organization had started a murderous attack on Israel, in which the largest massacre of Jews has been committed since the Holocaust.

Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court

Israel, like the United States, is not a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and has questioned the court's jurisdiction about his actions in the conflict. The court rejected this request on Thursday. The ICC claims jurisdiction about the areas occupied by Israel, including Gaza, East Jerusalem and West Bank, after the Palestinian leadership officially approved in 2015 to adhere to the founding regulations.

indictment against Hamas-Official

On Thursday, an arrest warrant against Hamas-Official Mohammed Diab Ibrahim al-Masri, known as Mohammed deif . Israel claims that he was one of the masterminds of the attack on October 7th. Israel says that he was killed in an air raid in September, but Hamas did not confirm his death. The ICC found that there were "sufficient reasons" to believe that Deif was responsible for "crimes against humanity, including murder, extermination, torture and rape and other forms of sexual violence and that he is also responsible for war crimes, including murder, cruel treatment and the kidnapping of civilians.

political reactions in Israel

A number of Israeli politicians condemned the court's decision to issue arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant. President Isaac Herzog described the arrest warrants as the "dark day for the judiciary" and "dark day for humanity". In a Explanation on x he said that "the outrageous decision of the ICC has made universal justice a universal mockery".

The future according to the arrest warrants

eliav Liebich, a professor of international law at the University of Tel Aviv, described the ICC's decision as "the most dramatic legal development in the history of Israel". He explained that the 124 Member States of the ICC, to which many of Israel's closest allies belong, would be legally obliged to arrest Netanyahu and gallant if they were in their territories. After issuing an arrest warrant, the ICC Cooperation inquiries Member States. The court does not have its own police to carry out the arrests, but rely on the Member States, which are legally obliged to carry out them.

leading personalities who were confronted with arrest warrants of the ICC have often experienced restrictions on their freedom of travel and could not travel through countries that are legally obliged to arrest them. This story continues to develop and is updated.