The decision of the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor to seek arrest warrants against Israeli leaders will disgrace the court and turn it into a farce, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu predicted.
“As Prime Minister of Israel, I reject with disgust the prosecutor’s comparison between democratic Israel and the mass murderers of Hamas. This is a complete distortion of reality,” Netanyahu said.
“The outrageous decision by ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan to issue arrest warrants against Israel’s democratically elected leaders is a moral outrage of historic proportions. It will cast an eternal mark of shame on the international court,” Netanyahu said in a video. message posted on the X message service.
Israel was waging a just war against Hamas, Netanyahu said, describing Hamas as a “genocidal terrorist organization.” He rejected any moral equivalence between Hamas and Israel’s leaders as “distorted and false.”
The arrest warrant application was a “travesty of justice and a disgrace”, he said. It was an attempt to deny Israel the fundamental right of self-defense and would fail.
Netanyahu accused Khan of adding fuel to the fire of anti-Semitism and said his abuse of his authority would turn the ICC into “nothing more than a farce.”
