Israel fears an international warrant for Netanyahu's arrest

The Israeli government is looking with concern to The Hague… There is the headquarters of the International Criminal Court (ICC), which is said to be preparing an international arrest warrant this week for Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Galland and his leader of Israel's general staff, Herzi Halevi, as reported by “Deutsche Welle”. Regarding this possibility, there are statements by the Israeli Prime Minister already last week. “Under his leadership,” he said, “Israel will never accept any attempt by the ICC to undermine its right to self-defense.” Prosecutions of Individuals What kind of prosecutions can the Court bring under its powers? In principle, the publication states, against individual people who are suspected of having committed one of 4 basic crimes in the exercise of power: genocide, serious war crimes, crimes against humanity or aggressive war. In fact the International Criminal Court has launched investigations from 2021 on possible perpetrators in Israel but also on […]
Source: News Beast

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