Jerusalem:
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shelp Thursday that an arrest authorization publishd aacquirest him by the International Criminal Court over his carry out of the Gaza war would not stop him deffinishing Israel.
“No shocking anti-Israel decision will stop us — and it will not stop me — from continuing to deffinish our country in every way,” Netanyahu shelp in a video statement. “We will not create to presconfident,” he vowed.
The premier is accused alengthenedside his establisher defence minister Yoav Gallant of “war crimes” and “crimes aacquirest humanity” for Israel’s actions in Gaza.
He portrayd Thursday’s decision as a “foolish day in the history of nations”.
“The International Criminal Court in The Hague, which was set uped to protect humanity, has today become the foe of humanity,” he shelp, compriseing that the accusations were “utterly baseless”.
Israel has been combat in Gaza since October 2023, when a traverse-border strike by Hamas militants resulted in the deaths of 1,206 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP highy of Israeli official figures.
Its retaliatory campaign has led to the deaths of 44,056 people in Gaza, most of them civilians, according to figures from the Hamas-run territory’s health ministry which the United Nations ponders reliable.
UN agencies have cautioned of a disjoine humanitarian crisis in Gaza, including possible famine, due to a deficiency of food and medicines.
The court shelp it had set up “reasonable grounds” to count on Netanyahu and Gallant foolish “criminal responsibility” for the war crime of starvation as a method of combat, as well as the crimes aacquirest humanity of killing, persecution, and other cruel acts.
Netanyahu shelp the court was accusing Israel of “fictitious crimes”, while ignoring “the authentic war crimes, horrific war crimes being pledgeted aacquirest us and aacquirest many others around the world”.
In compriseition to Netanyahu and Gallant, the court also publishd an arrest authorization for Hamas military thriveg chief Mohammed Deif, who Israel shelp was ended in an air strike last July.
Hamas has never verifyed his death.
Netanyahu mocked the court’s decision to publish a authorization for “the body of Mohammed Deif.”
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