The transfer comes after the ICC prosecutor Karim Khan announced on 20 May perhaps well, that he became hunting for arrest warrants for alleged crimes linked to the 7 October 2023 assaults on Israel by Hamas and the Israeli protection force response in Gaza
Reuters
21 November, 2024, 06:30 pm
Closing modified: 21 November, 2024, 06:37 pm
Judges on the World Criminal Court docket get issued arrest warrants for Israeli High Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his primitive defence chief, as effectively as a Hamas leader, Ibrahim Al-Masri, for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The transfer comes after the ICC prosecutor Karim Khan announced on 20 May perhaps well, that he became hunting for arrest warrants for alleged crimes linked to the 7 October 2023 assaults on Israel by Hamas and the Israeli protection force response in Gaza.
The ICC mentioned Israel’s acceptance of the court docket’s jurisdiction became now not required.
Israel has rejected the jurisdiction of the Hague-essentially based court docket and denies war crimes in Gaza. Israel has mentioned it killed Al-Masri, continuously referred to as Mohammed Deif, in airstrike but Hamas has neither confirmed nor denied this.