Israel awaits arrest warrants for Netanyahu and other senior officials for Gaza war crimes
Israel is waiting for the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants later this week against Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior Israeli government and military officials for alleged war crimes in the last months of the war in Gaza. This is the report of many Israeli and American media like ‘The New York Times’. The latter adds that the Court also Hamas will prepare similar orders against leaders For the 7 October attacks.
The person who will be drafting these orders will be Karim Khan, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, who according to the Israeli ‘Haaretz’ has already been pressured by Israel, the US and other Western countries to stop or will be. At least, the issuance of those orders was delayed, it seems, for the time being, unsuccessfully.
According to the Israeli government, orders will be issued against it Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Galant and the Chief of the General Staff Herzl Halevi, of the Israel Defense Forces.
The information from all these media outlets that published it this Monday comes from sources in the Israeli authorities.
It must be remembered that this court is the only court that has the power to try people accused of war crimes, genocide or crimes against humanity. However, for arrest it depends on
124 member states, including most European countries, but not Israel and the United States,
If this order is confirmed, Netanyahu will join the group of leaders including Putin with an arrest warrant from this court from March 2023 for war crimes committed by his forces in Ukraine.