The Prime Minister’s Office of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has confirmed that they will be appealing against the arrest warrants issued for Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant by the International Court of Justice (ICC). The Israeli PMO has also termed the warrants as ‘absurd’.
A brief statement has been issued to the media by Israeli PM Netanyahu’s Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) that they will be appealing against the arrest warrants issued for the Israel Prime Minister and former Defence Minister. They have also requested for the delay in implementation of these warrants as despite it being issued, the ICC has the discretion to suspend the warrants with a pending appeal.
PMO’s statement to the media read, “The State of Israel rejects the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, and the legitimacy of the arrest warrants that were issued against the prime minister and the former defense minister.” While announcing an appeal against the arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant, the Israeli PMO has also termed these warrants as ‘absurd’ and ‘without foundation’ i.e. baseless. The statement said, “Israel’s appeal notice exposes in detail just how absurd the issuance of arrest warrants was and how it lacks any factual or legal basis.”
An announcement by the PMO has also been made that the Israel Prime Minister met Lindsey Graham, US Republican Senator in Jerusalem where he was updated by the Senator on ‘a series of steps that he is advancing in the US Congress against the ICC and against countries that have cooperated with it’. The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defence Minister, Yoav Gallant. The charges of the court against Netanyahu are severe.
The three-judge panel said that he and Gallant are “co-perpetrators for committing the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare, and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts”. The judges also found reasonable grounds to believe that they bear criminal responsibility for the war crime of intentionally directing an attack against the civilian population. The charges are also backed by the work of the International Court of Justice, which has found that it is “plausible” that Israel has committed acts in Gaza that violate the Genocide Convention.
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