The International Criminal Court on Thursday issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister, as well as Hamas leader Ibrahim al-Masri, on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza conflict.
In their ruling, the ICC judges said there were reasonable grounds to believe that Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant were criminally responsible for acts of murder, persecution and starvation as a weapon of war as part of a “widespread and systematic attack against the civilian population of Gaza.”
The judges said there were also reasonable grounds to believe that the blockade of Gaza and the lack of food, water, electricity, fuel and medicine “created conditions of life calculated to bring about the deaths of parts of the civilian population in Gaza, resulting in the deaths of civilians, including children, due to malnutrition and dehydration.”
The decision sparked outrage in Israel, which called it shameful and absurd. Gazans expressed hope that it would help end the violence and bring those responsible for war crimes to justice.
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