President Biden is condemning the Intercontinental Felony Court’s determination to pursue to arrest warrants against Israeli Key Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant as “outrageous”.
ICC prosecutor Karim Khan introduced before Monday that his office has “sensible grounds” to believe Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas leaders have fully commited “war crimes and crimes against humanity” considering the fact that the onset of the Israel-Hamas war on Oct. 7.
“The ICC prosecutor’s software for arrest warrants in opposition to Israeli leaders is outrageous,” Biden explained in a statement issued Monday afternoon.
“And let me be obvious: no matter what this prosecutor may indicate, there is no equivalence – none – amongst Israel and Hamas,” Biden added. “We will constantly stand with Israel against threats to its security,” the president continued.
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Israeli Key Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and President Biden, who said Monday that the ICC’s force to get an arrest warrant for Netanyahu is “outrageous.” ((Fox Information/Getty Photos))
Secretary of Point out Antony Blinken also took purpose at the ICC’s announcement, indicating in a separate assertion Monday that the State Department rejects the “[p]rosecutor’s equivalence of Israel with Hamas,” contacting it “shameful.”
“The United States has been apparent considering the fact that perfectly just before the latest conflict that that ICC has no jurisdiction more than this make any difference. The ICC was recognized by its state events as a court docket of minimal jurisdiction. All those limits are rooted in ideas of complementarity, which do not seem to have been applied right here amid the Prosecutor’s hurry to seek out these arrest warrants relatively than letting the Israeli legal method a full and well timed chance to continue,” Blinken argued.
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Israeli Primary Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, suitable, and Israeli Protection Minister Yoav Gallant are pictured in the West Bank in August 2023. The ICC is pursuing an arrest warrant for Gallant as properly. (Amos Ben-Gershom (GPO)/Handout/Anadolu Company through Getty Photographs)
Blinken observed that in other issues, “the Prosecutor deferred to nationwide investigations and worked with states to allow them time to examine” and “did not find the money for the very same chance to Israel, which has ongoing investigations into allegations in opposition to its staff.”
“There are also deeply troubling method questions. Despite not remaining a member of the court docket, Israel was organized to cooperate with the Prosecutor. In truth, the Prosecutor himself was scheduled to stop by Israel as early as following week to explore the investigation and listen to from the Israeli Government,” Blinken continued. “The Prosecutor’s staff members was supposed to land in Israel now to coordinate the pay a visit to. Israel was educated that they did not board their flight about the similar time that the Prosecutor went on cable tv to announce the expenses. These and other instances connect with into issue the legitimacy and reliability of this investigation.”
Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’ leader, waves to a crowd in Gaza. Sinwar is one of three Hamas officers that the ICC is looking to purchase an arrest warrant for. (Photo by Mustafa Hassona/Anadolu Company through Getty Pictures)
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The decision also “does almost nothing to enable, and could jeopardize, ongoing initiatives to attain a ceasefire agreement that would get hostages out and surge humanitarian aid in, which are the aims the United States carries on to pursue relentlessly,” Blinken stated.
