The International Criminal Court announced it intends to seek arrest warrants for senior Hamas and Israeli leaders for the Oct. 7 attack and conflict.
The top Hamas officials the ICC will seek warrants for are Yahya Sinwar, the head of Hamas in Gaza, Mohammed Deif, the head of the military, and Ismail Haniyeh, the head of its political bureau. It is also looking to obtain arrest warrants for Israeli Prime MinisterA panel of ICC judges will now consider chief prosecutor Karim Khan’s application for the arrest warrants.
“My Office also submits there are reasonable grounds to believe that hostages taken from Israel have been kept in inhumane conditions, and that some have been subject to sexual violence, including rape, while being held in captivity. We have reached that conclusion based on medical records, contemporaneous video and documentary evidence, and interviews with victims and survivors,” the statement continued.
Netanyahu and Gallant are accused of starvation of civilians, willfully causing great suffering, willful killing, intentionally directing attacks against a civilian population, and extermination.Israeli leaders have denied allegations they are committing war crimes, though all of Gaza’s 2.2 million residents are facing acute food insecurity due to the war.Both U.S.
“The possibility that they will issue arrest warrants for war crimes against IDF commanders and state leaders, this possibility is a scandal on a historic scale,” Netanyahu said last month. U.S. National Security Council coordinator John Kirby said around the same time, “We don’t believe the ICC has any jurisdiction here. We don’t support this investigation.”
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