Middle East conflict
Joe Biden “outraged” by international arrest warrant against Netanyahu
US President Joe Biden has no understanding of the arrest warrant that the International Criminal Court issued against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
US President Joe Biden has described the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) decision to issue an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant as “outrageous”. There is “no equivalence” between Israel and the radical Islamic Palestinian organization Hamas. “We will always stand with Israel when it is threatened,” he continued.
On Thursday, the court issued arrest warrants against Netanyahu, Gallant and the military chief of the radical Islamic Palestinian organization Hamas, Mohammed Deif. They are accused of crimes against humanity and war crimes during the Gaza war.
Washington was “deeply concerned about the prosecutor’s haste to request arrest warrants and the troubling procedural errors that led to this decision,” a spokesman for the National Security Council in Washington said before Biden’s statement. From the US government’s perspective, the ICC “does not have jurisdiction in this matter.”
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The ICC does not have its own police force to enforce its arrest warrants and therefore relies on the cooperation of the 124 member states. Neither Israel nor its main ally, the United States, is a member of the ICC.
The Gaza War was triggered on October 7, 2023 by the major attack on Israel by the radical Islamic Palestinian organization Hamas, in which, according to Israeli information, 1,206 people were killed and 251 people were taken hostage. Since then, Israel has taken massive military action in the Gaza Strip. According to the Hamas health authority, which cannot be independently verified, at least 44,056 people were killed.
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Source: Stern
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