The leader of Germany’s Central Council of Jews on Thursday denounced the International Criminal Court in Den Hauge over arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the former defense minister.
“This arrest warrant against a prime minister of a democratic state and its former defense minister is an absurdity,” said Berlin Central Council President Josef Schuster.
The ICC on Thursday ordered the arrest of Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant on suspicion of war crimes and crimes against humanity, as well as the leader of the Palestinian militant Islamist group Hamas, Mohammad Diab Ibrahim Al-Masrias, and the leader of the Palestinian militant Islamist group group. group Hamas, also known as Mohammad Deif.
The ICC’s chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, requested the arrest warrants in May.
Schuster reacted indignantly and demanded that the “German government would not accept this reversal between perpetrator and victim.”
“Israel is defending itself against Islamist terror in Gaza and Lebanon after the Hamas massacre on October 7, 2023,” he said. “The very semantic dualism that places Israel on the same level as Hamas borders on impertinence and a completely misguided understanding of the function of an international criminal court as a result of anti-Israel propaganda.”
