Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired again on the Worldwide Legal Court docket, accusing its judges of holding “antisemitic hatred toward Israel” after they issued a warrant for his arrest over alleged struggle crimes in Gaza.
Netanyahu personally rebuked ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan on Wednesday.
“The decision was made by a corrupt chief prosecutor attempting to save himself from serious allegations of sexual harassment, and by biased judges driven by antisemitic hatred toward Israel,” Mr Netanyahu stated, based on The Telegraph.
Netanyahu is the primary chief of a contemporary Western democracy to be needed by the world’s highest felony court docket.
The tribunal in The Hague has additionally accused his former Protection Minister Yoav Gallant of struggle crimes.
US officers slammed the ICC’s determination as a “dangerous” act that undermines the Jewish state’s proper to defend itself.
“The United States fundamentally rejects the Court’s decision to issue arrest warrants for senior Israeli officials. We remain deeply concerned by the Prosecutor’s rush to seek arrest warrants and the troubling process errors that led to this decision,” stated a White Home Nationwide Safety Council spokesperson.
The US will not be a member of the ICC and the court docket has by no means arrested anybody on US soil previously. Israel additionally will not be a member.
Together with the Israeli leaders, the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Mohammed Deif, the supreme commander of Hamas’s navy wing who orchestrated the Oct. 7 terrorist assault that killed greater than 1,200 folks and began the struggle.
