https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/20/middleeast/icc-israel-hamas-arrest-warrant-wa...




By Ivana Kottasová and Madalena Araujo, CNN
4 minute read
Updated 8:41 AM EDT, Mon May 20, 2024






The International Criminal Court is seeking arrest warrants for Hamas leader in Gaza 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, the court’s prosecutor Karim Khan told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an exclusive interview on Monday.

Khan said the ICC is also seeking warrants for Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, as well as two other top Hamas leaders — Mohammed Diab Ibrahim al-Masri, the leader of the Al Qassem Brigades who is better known as Mohammed Deif, and Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’ political leader.

The warrants against the Israeli politicians mark the first time the ICC has targeted the top leader of a close ally of the United States. The decision puts Netanyahu in the company of the Russian President Vladimir Putin, for whom the ICC issued an arrest warrant over Moscow’s war on Ukraine, and the Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi, who was facing an arrest warrant from the ICC for alleged crimes against humanity at the time of his capture and killing in October 2011.

By applying for the arrest warrants against Israeli and Hamas leaders in the same action, Khan’s office risks attracting criticism that it places a terror organization and an elected government on an equivalent footing.

A panel of ICC judges will now consider Khan’s application for the arrest warrants.

Khan said the charges against Sinwar, Haniyeh and al-Masri include “extermination, murder, taking of hostages, rape and sexual assault in detention.”

“The world was shocked on the 7th of October when people were ripped from their bedrooms, from their homes, from the different kibbutzim in Israel,” Khan told Amanpour, adding that “people have suffered enormously.”

The charges against Netanyahu and Gallant include “causing extermination, causing starvation as a method of war, including the denial of humanitarian relief supplies, deliberately targeting civilians in conflict,” Khan told Amanpour.

Putin has an arrest warrant issued by ICC how are they going with that?

As for the Israelis and Hamas it's just applications at this stage  a judge has to decide.

Karim Khan from the ICC is a muslim. Muslims have been at war with the jews for 1400 years.

MattE wrote on May 21^st, 2024 at 5:14am:



Oh come on -
they dropped over 30,000 tons of bombs on the tiny area of Gaza.
They were 500lb and even 2,000lb bombs that
mostly landed on women and children.
They didn't allow women and children to leave Gaza to be put into tents -
and now over 20,000 of them are dead and there are
more than 70,000 people wounded.
They used food as a weapon of war - starving women, children and babies to death.
You wouldn't think that was possible in 2023 /  2024.

freediver wrote on May 21^st, 2024 at 7:46am:



Dear FD,
to work out such difficult questions -
you need only to consult your Bible to
find out what Jesus would have done if he was Bibi Netanyahu.

MattE wrote on May 21^st, 2024 at 5:14am:


If by "everything humanely possible" you mean they've intentionally targeted hospitals, maternity wards, pregnant women, babies, and children then ... yeah.

greggerypeccary wrote on May 21^st, 2024 at 12:17pm:



It's what we've been saying for over 6 months -
both sides in this war are nothing but criminals.
It's not new -
they have been slaughtering each other for 1000s of years in Israel.

freediver wrote on May 21^st, 2024 at 7:46am:



all those women and children attacked Israel?

Stay off the drugs fool