EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell on Friday urged Israel \u201cnot to intimidate\u201d or \u201cthreaten\u201d the judges of the International Criminal Court, whose prosecutor has asked for arrest warrants of Israel\u2019s prime minister and defense minister.
\n\u201cI ask everyone, starting with the Israeli government, but also certain European governments, not to intimidate the judges, not to threaten them,\u201d Borrell said, calling for \u201crespect for the International Criminal Court\u201d.
\nICC prosecutor Karim Khan said Monday that he requested arrest warrants for as Israel\u2019s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, as well as top Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Ismail Haniyeh and Mohamed Deif, on suspicions of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
\nWhile he said the Palestinian militant chiefs could be culpable of \u201cextermination\u201d, \u201crape and other acts of sexual violence\u201d and \u201ctaking hostages as a war crime\u201d, he accused the Israelis of \u201cstarvation\u201d, \u201cwilful killing\u201d, and \u201cex-termination and\/or murder\u201d.
\nNetanyahu said he rejected \u201cthe comparison between democratic Israel and the mass murderers of Hamas\u201d, and Biden also stressed that \u201cthere is no equivalence between Israel and Hamas\u201d.
\nThe warrants would mean that any of the 124 ICC member states would technically be obliged to arrest Netanyahu and the others if they travelled there. However, the court has no mechanism to en-force its orders.
\nThe Gaza war broke out after Hamas\u2019s unprecedented attack on October 7 resulted in the deaths of more than 1,170 people, mostly civilians.
\nMilitants also took 252 hostages, 121 of whom remain in Gaza, including 37 the army says are dead.
\nIsrael\u2019s retaliatory offensive has killed at least 35,800 people in Gaza, mostly women and children, according to the Hamas-run territory\u2019s health ministry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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