The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor has requested arrest warrants for the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the leader of Hamas in Gaza for war crimes.
Karim Khan said there were reasonable grounds to believe that both men bore criminal responsibility for war crimes and crimes against humanity from at least October 7, 2023.
The ICC, based in The Hague, has been investigating Israel’s actions in the occupied territories for the past three years – and more recently the actions of Hamas.
Mr. Netanyahu recently called the prospect of senior Israeli figures joining the ICC’s wanted list “a scandal of historic proportions.”
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