The president of the United States, Joe Biden, this Thursday called the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes “scandalous.” and against humanity in the Gaza Strip.
“The issuance of arrest warrants by the ICC against Israeli leaders is scandalous. Let me be clear once again: regardless of what the ICC may entail, there is no equivalence – none – between Israel and Hamas. “We will always stand with Israel against threats to its security,” he said in a statement.
The ICC requested this Thursday the arrest and surrender of both Netanyahu and Gallant and the military leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), Mohammed Deif, although Israel already declared him dead in an attack in June against the Strip, something that has not been able to do so. be independently confirmed.
Read: US rejects arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant: ‘They have no jurisdiction over this matter’
After the issuance of the arrest warrants, Netanyahu called the ICC accusation “absurd and false” and an “anti-Semitic” decision, and assured that “there is nothing more just than the war that Israel is waging in Gaza.” Meanwhile, Hamas celebrated the measure: “International justice is with us against the Zionist entity,” he asserted.
The ICC does not have a police force to arrest suspects, but its 125 member states, including the United Kingdom and European Union countries, have an obligation to cooperate with the Court. Neither the United States nor Israel are part of this court.
Before Biden spoke, a White House spokesperson had announced that the United States is “deeply concerned” by the “hastiness” of the ICC Prosecutor’s Office, led by Karim Khan, to request arrest warrants, as well as by the “problematic procedural errors that have led to this decision”
With information from EFE
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