The chief prosecutor of the Worldwide Felony Court docket mentioned on Monday, Could 20, that he’s in search of arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders, together with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in reference to their actions through the seven-month battle that started on October 7.
Karim Khan mentioned that he believes Netanyahu, his protection minister Yoav Gallant and three Hamas leaders – Yehya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif and Ismail Haniyeh – are accountable for battle crimes and crimes towards humanity within the Gaza Strip and Israel.
Talking of the Israeli actions, Khan mentioned in an announcement that “the results of using hunger as a technique of warfare, along with different assaults and collective punishment towards the civilian inhabitants of Gaza are acute, seen and broadly recognized. … They embrace malnutrition, dehydration, profound struggling and an rising variety of deaths among the many Palestinian inhabitants, together with infants, different kids, and ladies.”
Of the Hamas actions on October 7, he mentioned that he noticed for himself “the devastating scenes of those assaults and the profound influence of the unconscionable crimes charged within the functions filed immediately. Talking with survivors, I heard how the love inside a household, the deepest bonds between a mother or father and a toddler, had been contorted to inflict unfathomable ache via calculated cruelty and excessive callousness. These acts demand accountability.”