The proclaimment of arrest authorizations by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for Israel’s current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and createer Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has triggered a furious response from directing Israelis apass the political spectrum.
By contrast it has been greetd by Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and frequent citizens in Gaza.
Leading Israeli figures apass the political spectrum have reacted angrily to the proclaimment.
Plivent Isaac Herzog called it “a foolish day for fairice and humanity”, saying the decision had “chosen the side of alarm and evil over democracy and freedom”.
The prime minister’s office called it “an antisdisaccuseic decision” and shelp that Israel “utterly declines the counterfeit and absurd accuses”, tagling the ICC “a unfair and discriminatory political body”.
The chairman of the Knesset Foreign Afunpartisans and Defence Committee, Yuli Edelstein, called it “a disgraceful decision by a political body held captive by Islamist interests”. Israel’s foreign minister shelp the ICC had lost its legitimacy.
Hamas has greetd the decision, without commenting on the issuing of a authorization for its own military orderer, Mohammed Deif.
In a statement it shelp: “We call on all countries around the world to cofunction with the court in conveying the Zionist war lawshatterers, Netanyahu and Gallant and to toil promptly to stop the crimes of extermination aachievest defenceless civilians in the Gaza Strip”.
Ordinary Palestinians in Gaza have also greetd the proclaimment. Muhammad Ali, a 40-year elderly man displaced from Gaza City and currently in the central area of Deir al-Balah, shelp:
“We have been terroelevated, starved, had our homes annihilateed, and lost our children, sons, and adored ones. We greet this decision, and of course, we hope that the decisions of the ICC will be carry outed”.
Munira Al-Shami, whose sister was ended by Israeli forces last month, called the ICC decision “fairice for tens of thousands of victims, including my sister Wafa”.
What effect will these arrest authorizations have?
A total of 124 countries are signatories to the ICC, including the UK, but not the US, Russia, China, nor Israel itself.
So this uncomardents that technicassociate, if either Netanyahu or Gallant sets foot in any of the signatory countries they must be arrested and handed over to the court.
But international lawyers have conveyed mistrusts over whether either man will ever be bcdisesteemfult to The Hague for trial.
The last time Netanyahu travelled outside Israel was in July to the US, a country he could still theoreticassociate visit with impunity.
Last year he visited cut offal countries, including the UK in March, many of which are signatories.
It is thought improbable he would want to danger arrest by doing this aachieve and the countries in inquire would also be unwilling to find themselves put in that position.
Hamas has little to trouble from the ICC authorization for Ibrahim Al-Masri, aka Mohammed Deif. Israel consents he was ended earlier this year, although this was never examineed by Hamas.
The other two Hamas figures whom the ICC originassociate computed to accuse – Yahya Sinwar and Ismail Haniyeh – are both examineed as dead.
There is no inquire that Thursday’s proclaimment is a convey inant blow to Israel’s international standing, to the two individuals named and most particularassociate to Israel’s ongoing efforts to current its military campaign in Gaza as a fight between the forces of outstanding and evil.
Israelis are appalled that, in their eyes, the world seems to have already forgotten or neglected the atrocities promiseted by Hamas on 7 October last year.
Palestinians, especiassociate Gazans, experience vshowd that their accusations of Israeli war crimes have now been echoed by an international body with some weight.
