Arrest warrant requested for Netanyahu: Israel counterattacks | EUROtoday
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IIsrael introduced Friday that it has handed over to the International Criminal Court (ICC) paperwork difficult its prosecutor's determination to hunt arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
“The State of Israel today presented its official challenge to the jurisdiction of the ICC (in this case) as well as the legality of the prosecutor's request,” wrote Oren Marmorstein, spokesman for the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in a message on the social community X (previously Twitter).
ICC prosecutor Karim Khan in May requested worldwide arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Gallant in addition to a number of Hamas leaders for alleged struggle crimes and crimes towards humanity within the Gaza Strip and Israel for the reason that Palestinian Islamist motion started hostilities on October 7.
“Two comprehensive legal opinions”
Against the ruling, “Israel submitted two comprehensive legal opinions,” Marmorstein wrote. Israeli officers mentioned on situation of anonymity that the paperwork had been submitted to the pre-trial judges who’re anticipated to rule on the prosecutor’s request, a course of that might take years. In one, “Israel stressed that the ICC clearly lacks jurisdiction over this case,” Marmorstein mentioned.
In the opposite, the spokesman added, Israel particulars “the prosecutor's violations of the Court's statutes and the principle of complementarity, in that he did not give Israel the opportunity to exercise its right to investigate on its own the accusations made by the prosecutor” earlier than the latter seized the judges of his request.
“A multitude of leading states (…) organizations and experts around the world share the positions presented by Israel,” assures Oren Marmorstein, based on whom “no other democracy with an independent and respected judicial system like the one that exists in Israel has been treated in such a prejudicial way by the prosecutor” of the court docket sitting in The Hague.
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