Monday 20 May 2024 – 12:46
The International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor is seeing an arrest warrant against Netanyahu for Gaza “war crimes.”
The charges against the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Israel’s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, include “causing extermination, causing starvation as a method of war, including the denial of humanitarian relief supplies, deliberately targeting civilians in conflict,” Karim Khan tells CNN.
A panel of ICC judges is currently considering chief prosecutor Khan’s application for the warrant, in addition to him seeking a similar warrants against Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, the leader of the Al Qassem Brigades Mohammed Diab Ibrahim al-Masri, Hamas’ political leader Ismail Haniyeh.
