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It took the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague six months to issue arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
The November 21 arrest warrants also included Mohammad Deif, the Palestinian resistance leader, who Israel claimed to have assassinated in July.
The Hague court’s Pre-Trial Chamber I said it “issued warrants of arrest for two individuals, Mr Benjamin Netanyahu and Mr Yoav Gallant, for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed from at least 8 October 2023 until at least 20 May 2024, the day the Prosecution filed the applications for warrants of arrest.”
In the six-month period since May 2024, the zionist war criminals have murdered tens of thousands of other Palestinians, the vast majority of them women and children.
They have also displaced 2.3 million Palestinians—the entire population of Gaza—and subjected them to starvation.
Food, water and medicines have been deliberately withheld from the Palestinians to force them out of the tiny enclave.
This is meant to implant zionist squatters in Gaza on a permanent basis.
The court unanimously rejected challenges by Israel under articles 18 and 19 of the Rome Statute, it said in a statement.
The court said it “found reasonable grounds” to believe that Netanyahu and Gallant “each bear criminal responsibility for the following crimes as co-perpetrators for committing the acts jointly with others: the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare; and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts.”
The official death toll in Gaza has surpassed 44,000 since October 2023 while 103,000 Palestinians have been injured.
The actual death toll, according to a study by the British Medical Journal, The Lancet, may be as high as 186,000.
Even as these lines are being written, the zionists are continuing their genocidal campaign in Gaza.
The zionists’ default response is to scream, ‘anti-semitism’.
Israeli prime minister Netanyahu’s office said the issuance of an arrest warrant against him by the ICC for war crimes was “antisemitic”.
The statement went on: “No anti-Israel decision will prevent the State of Israel from defending its citizens.
“The PM will not succumb to pressure, will not be deterred, and will not retreat until all the war objectives set by Israel at the start of the campaign are achieved.”
So, as far as the zionist war criminals are concerned, the ICC arrest warrant will not deter them from continuing their genocide of the Palestinians.
They slaughtered another 90 Palestinians, many of them children, by bombing the Beit Lehia camp in north Gaza on November 21 night.
The Dutch news agency ANP citing the country’s foreign minister Caspar Veldkamp, reported that the Netherlands is prepared to act upon the arrest warrant issued by the ICC against Netanyahu if needed.
If the Israeli leader comes to Dutch soil, he will be arrested, Veldkamp said in the House of Representatives, local outlet Nos reported.
The ICC is based in the Hague, the Netherlands.
“The Netherlands implements the Rome Statute 100 percent,” the foreign minister said.
The signatories of the Rome Statute and members of the ICC are bound to arrest those against whom warrants are issued.
The EU’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, was equally emphatic saying that the ICC decision was “not political”, and should be “respected and implemented”.
The French, however, prevaricated.
When asked at a news conference if France would arrest Netanyahu, foreign ministry spokesman Christophe Lemoine said it was a legally complicated question.
What was legally complicated about it when the ICC ruled that it “found reasonable grounds” that Netanyahu and Gallant were criminally responsible for mass starvation and murder.
The Islamic resistance movement Hamas welcomed the arrest warrants issued by the ICC.
“[It is] an important step towards justice and can lead to redress for the victims in general, but it remains limited and symbolic if it is not supported by all means by all countries around the world,” Hamas political bureau member Bassem Naim said in a statement.
It is yet to be seen whether the two zionist war criminals will be arrested and brought in handcuffs to the Hague.
Israel’s godfather, the US is unlikely to allow its favourite terrorists to be arrested to face charges of war crimes.
The White House issued a statement saying it rejects the ICC decision.
When the charges were first brought before the court in May 2024, members of US Congress went berserk.
The zionists even threatened to kill the chief prosecutor, Karim Khan.
While it is unlikely that the two war criminals—and many more beside them in the zionist entity—will ever be seen in orange suits, the countries they can visit have been severely restricted.
Unfortunately, that does not include the US whose rulers are the biggest terrorists in the world.
They should also be charged as accomplices in war crimes and genocide.
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