Arrest warrant for Netanyahu and Hamas leader

[TagliatelliMonster]

Situation in the State of Palestine: ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I rejects the State of Israel’s challenges to jurisdiction and issues warrants of arrest for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant

Today, on 21 November 2024, Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (‘Court’), in its composition for the Situation in the State of Palestine, unanimously issued two decisions rejecting challenges by the State of Israel (‘Israel’) brought under articles 18 and 19 of the Rome...

www.icc-cpi.int

This just in. The international criminal court has just issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant and Mohammed Deif (hamas leader) for warcrimes / crimes against humanity.

Good job.

Actually arresting them, will be another matter though.

 

[Yerda]

People backed by the USA aren't prosecuted for war crimes.

 

[TagliatelliMonster]

People backed by the USA aren't prosecuted for war crimes.

If the people with arrest warrants get arrested, they will be prosecuted by the ICC, regardless of what the US thinks about it.
Off course, the US is not a member of the ICC. Which in itself is off course telling.

However, neither is the point.
The point is that the arrest warrants exist. That, in itself, is an international recognition of the, at least, suspected war crimes committed by these people.

Putin has an arrest warrant also for what he did, and is doing, in Ukraine.
I don't expect him to be arrested any time soon either.

I'ld love all of them to face the justice they deserve in those courts though...............
But failing that, the symbolism of the warrants is a nice signal nonetheless.