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Post by Admin on May 21, 2024 2:22:08 GMT
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Post by Admin on May 21, 2024 7:25:01 GMT
Benjamin Netanyahu responded with fury to the news that he might face an arrest warrant for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
It was "a moral outrage of historic proportions", he said. Israel was "waging a just war against Hamas, a genocidal terrorist organisation that perpetrated the worst attack on the Jewish people since the Holocaust."
In a bitter personal attack, Mr Netanyahu said Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) was one of the "great antisemites in modern times."
Mr Khan, he said, was like judges in Nazi Germany who denied Jews basic rights and enabled the Holocaust. His decision to seek arrest warrants against Israel’s prime minister and defence minister was "callously pouring gasoline on the fires of antisemitism that are raging around the world.’
Mr Netanyahu spoke English on the video that was released by his office. He does that when he wants his message to reach the foreign audience that matters most to him, in the US.
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Post by Admin on May 22, 2024 15:21:50 GMT
In response to the ICC (International Criminal Court) requesting arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others, US Secretary of State Blinken suggested sanctions against ICC officials.
Secretary of State Blinken attended a Congressional hearing in Washington on May 21, calling the ICC's request for arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip "clearly misguided." ``We will deal with the decision,'' he said, suggesting sanctions against the ICC prosecutors who made the decision to request an arrest warrant.
Sanctions against ICC officials are being discussed in the upper house of Congress from a standpoint of supporting Israel, and a vote is expected to be taken this week. The US government has strongly opposed the ICC's decision to request an arrest warrant, saying, ``It is outrageous to treat Israel and Hamas on the same level.'' (ANN News)
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Post by Admin on May 24, 2024 17:00:27 GMT
On the 24th, the International Court of Justice (ICJ, The Hague, Netherlands) ordered Israel, which continues to attack the Palestinian autonomous region of Gaza, to immediately suspend its military operations in Rafah, southern Gaza, as interim measures. The ICJ had previously ordered that "all measures" be taken to prevent acts of genocide, but for the first time it suspended military operations as the damage in Gaza continues to escalate.
This provisional measures order comes after South Africa, which filed a lawsuit against Israel at the end of last year, requested the ICJ on the 10th of this month to urgently halt attacks on Rafah, the southernmost part of Gaza, as an additional provisional measure. As criticism of the invasion grows in the international community, including the United States, which supports Israel, this order will further increase pressure on Israel.
Although the order is legally binding, the ICJ has no compulsory means of enforcement. On the other hand, the countries concerned have an obligation to comply with the regulations, and failure to do so would be a violation of international law. However, it is unclear whether Israel, which is determined to destroy the Islamic group Hamas in Gaza, will immediately halt its attacks.
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Post by Admin on May 25, 2024 11:49:19 GMT
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