{"id":31324,"date":"2024-08-24T12:14:10","date_gmt":"2024-08-24T09:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=31324"},"modified":"2024-08-25T12:15:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T09:15:54","slug":"icc-prosecutor-calls-for-immediate-arrest-warrants-for-netanyahu-and-sinwar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/24\/icc-prosecutor-calls-for-immediate-arrest-warrants-for-netanyahu-and-sinwar\/","title":{"rendered":"ICC Prosecutor Calls for Immediate Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu and Sinwar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Karim Khan, urged the judges today, Saturday, to issue a &#8220;swift judgment&#8221; regarding his request for arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Security Minister Yoav Gallant, and the head of Hamas&#8217; political bureau, Yahya Sinwar.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In a legal memorandum reported by the Israeli &#8220;i24&#8221; channel, the Prosecutor wrote, &#8220;The court has jurisdiction in this case.&#8221; He also explained to the judges in his message that &#8220;unjustified delays in this procedure would harm the rights of the victims in the Palestinian territories.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Khan requested that the judges reject legal petitions filed against the arrest warrants, according to the German Press Agency.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Khan added that the court has the authority to investigate Israel and reject the legal arguments based on provisions of the Oslo Accords and Israel&#8217;s assertions that it conducts internal investigations into its attacks on the Gaza Strip, in light of the court&#8217;s allegations of war crimes.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">It is noteworthy that about three months ago, the court issued a decision regarding the arrest warrants. Khan stated that the charges against Sinwar, Ismail Haniyeh, and Mohammed Al-Masri (Al-Deif) include &#8220;destruction, murder, taking hostages, rape, and sexual assault during detention.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The charges against Netanyahu and Gallant include &#8220;causing genocide, using starvation as a method of warfare, including preventing humanitarian aid from reaching those in need, and deliberately harming civilians in the conflict.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">So far, a panel of ICC judges has been required to review Khan&#8217;s request concerning the arrest warrants, according to the Israeli channel.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Karim Khan, urged the judges today, Saturday, to issue a &#8220;swift judgment&#8221; regarding his request for arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Security Minister Yoav Gallant, and the head of Hamas&#8217; political bureau, Yahya Sinwar. In a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31325,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31324\/revisions\/31325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}