The International Criminal Court’s Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan is seeking arrest warrants for Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on charges of “war crimes and crimes against humanity” over the October 7 attacks on Israel and the subsequent war in Gaza.
Khan also said the court is seeking warrants for Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, as well as two other top Hamas leaders: leader of the Al Qassem Brigades Mohammed Deif, and Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’ political leader.
Kohelet Policy Forum member and international law expert Prof. Eugene Kontorovich commented on the significance of the ICC’s charges against Israeli officials earlier today.
“The significance is that the ICC has become, what it had long been turning into – another politicized international org like the UN or ICRC. Legally, its lacks jurisdiction, and seeking to accuse Israel of war crimes in the war with the lowest civilian casualty rate of any modern urban combat is absurd. It is absurd to accuse Israel of the “crime of starvation” when no one has died of hunger.”
It seems the ICC forgot who started this war and, in their eyes, you can’t have one without the other. No matter how much evidence there is to expose the evil actions of Hamas, Israel must be a part of the ICC’s sick equation. “Diplomatically, it is an attempt to create moral equivalence between Hamas and Israel,” said Kontorovich.
Sources:
‘ICC is like voodoo, its power depends on your belief’, by Israel National News, May 20, 2024
ICC Prosecutor seeking arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Sinwar, by Israel National News