ICC rejects Israeli appeals, issues arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant

The International Criminal Court (ICC) rejected challenges from Israel and issued apprehension warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and erstwhile Defense Minister Yoav Gallant connected Thursday.

The ICC charged Netanyahu and Gallant with "crimes against humanity and warfare crimes," including utilizing starvation arsenic a method of warfare and targeting civilians. Israeli President Isaac Herzog condemned the determination successful a connection connected Thursday.

"Taken successful atrocious faith, the outrageous determination astatine the ICC has turned cosmopolitan justness into a cosmopolitan laughingstock. It makes a mockery of the sacrifice of each those who combat for justness – from the Allied triumph implicit the Nazis till today," Herzog wrote.

Herzog argued that the ICC's determination ignores Hamas' usage of quality shields and its Oct. 7, 2023 panic attacks that started the war, arsenic good arsenic the Israeli hostages remaining successful Gaza.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and erstwhile Defense Minister Yoav Gallant present look apprehension warrants from the International Criminal Court. (Reuters/Pool)

"Indeed, the determination has chosen the broadside of panic and evil implicit ideology and freedom, and turned the precise strategy of justness into a quality shield for Hamas’ crimes against humanity," helium added. "This cynical exploitation of the planetary ineligible institutions reminds america erstwhile again of the request for existent motivation clarity successful the look of an Iranian empire of evil that seeks to destabilize our portion and the world, and destruct the precise institutions of the escaped world."

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Israel made respective efforts to artifact the ICC from approving the apprehension warrants. They archetypal argued that the ICC has nary jurisdiction implicit Israel, but the tribunal said it could contented the apprehension warrants arsenic portion of the "territorial jurisdication of Palestine."

Israel besides made different procedural challenges, but they were rejected.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog condemned the ICC for issuing apprehension warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and erstwhile Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. (AP/Ben Curtis)

The ICC's determination comes conscionable days aft Senate Majority Leader-elect John Thune threatened to deed the tribunal with sanctions if it moved guardant with the apprehension warrants.

Thune – who was selected past week to beryllium the adjacent Senate bulk person erstwhile the GOP takes the precocious enclosure travel January 2025 – warned that if the existent Democratic person does not instrumentality connected the planetary court, helium will.

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"If the ICC and its authoritative bash not reverse their outrageous and unlawful actions to prosecute apprehension warrants against Israeli officials, the Senate should instantly walk sanctions legislation, arsenic the House has already done connected a bipartisan basis," Thune wrote connected X. "If Majority Leader Schumer does not act, the Senate Republican bulk volition basal with our cardinal state Israel and marque this – and different supportive authorities – a apical precedence successful the adjacent Congress."

(Sen. John Thune, right, urged Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to instrumentality enactment against the ICC.)

The U.S. does not officially admit the ICC’s authority, but it is not the archetypal clip Washington has looked to halt the court’s actions.

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In 2020, the Trump medication opposed attempts by the ICC to analyse U.S. soldiers and the CIA progressive successful alleged warfare crimes betwixt 2003-2004 "in concealed detention facilities successful Afghanistan," and issued sanctions against ICC prosecutors.

President Biden's medication undid those sanctions soon aft entering office.