Pre-trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in connection with the war in Gaza. The same warrant has also been issued for Hamas leader Deif, whom the Jewish state believes it killed. The accusation is that of "war crimes".
Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp said the Netherlands was "fully cooperating with the ICC" and was ready to carry out the arrest . But under the agreements, the 124 states that are members of the ICC are obliged to execute the arrest warrants on their territory if Netanyahu or Gallant travel to those countries, making it almost impossible for them to travel abroad.
The Tel Aviv government's reaction was immediate. " The anti-Semitic decision of the International Criminal Court is equivalent to the modern Dreyfus trial, and it will end like this. Israel rejects with disgust the absurd and false actions and accusations against it by the International Criminal Court, which is a biased and discriminatory political body ," declared in a statement from the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“There is nothing more just than the war that Israel has been waging on Gaza since October 7, 2023, after the terrorist organization Hamas launched an attack against it and committed the largest massacre committed against the Jewish people since the Holocaust,” Netanyahu’s spokesmen added.
(Online Union)