We publish below an excerpt from the Red Herald article of the same name found here.
The ICC (International Criminal Court) has requested an international arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity, as finally now, after almost eight months of Israel openly and blatantly violating international laws and the genocide being broadcast live around the world, the court has “found enough evidence” to charge the Israeli leaders with this.
As the court of the imperialists, it also requested an arrest warrant for Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Diab Ibrahim al-Masri and Ismail Haniyeh, in order to relativize the genocide Israel is carrying out, and has been carrying out for 76 years, with the resistance of the oppressed against their oppressors. Hamas condemned this action, maintaining that it has the right to do armed resistance against Israeli occupation, and demanded that according to the Rome Statute, the ICC should also prosecute all Israeli officers who gave orders to carry out crimes and all IDF soldiers who carried out crimes.
In difference to the ICJ, the ICC is a criminal court and not a civil one, and can prosecute individuals. Israel and the US are not members of the ICC and do not recognize its jurisdiction. Israeli leaders reacted with outrage to the warrant, crying “anti-Semitism” and “scandal” and declared that the ICC will not stop it from continuing until it has achieved its goals in the war.
Photo: ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan announces the Court’s requests for the arrest warrants on May 20
