Netanyahu on ICC investigation: 'Historic scandal and antisemitic hate crime'

[Almost Heaven]

PM: 'We will enter Rafah because we have no other choice. Many forces, including the ICC, are trying to stop us, but have no authority over Israel.'​

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a video statement today (Tuesday) in which he addressed the threat by the International Criminal Court in The Hague to issue arrest warrants against senior Israeli officials and said that this would be a distortion of justice and history.

Netanyahu began by addressing the plans for the IDF to enter Rafah to eliminate the last Hamas battalions in Gaza. "We will enter Rafah because we have no other choice. We will destroy the Hamas battalions there, we will complete all the objectives of the war, including the return of all our hostages," he said.

Netanyahu added: "There are many forces trying to prevent us from doing this. Recently another force joined them - the International Criminal Court in The Hague. This court has no authority over the State of Israel."

"The possibility that he will issue arrest warrants for war crimes against IDF commanders and political leaders, this possibility is a scandal on a historic scale.

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/389210

 

[Hol]

This threat is substantial. Here's an example from 2005: "Scotland Yard was thwarted yesterday in its attempt to seize a former senior Israeli army officer at Heathrow airport for alleged war crimes in occupied Palestinian lands after a British judge had issued a warrant for his arrest.

British detectives were waiting for retired Major General Doron Almog who was aboard an El Al flight which arrived from Israel yesterday. It is believed he was tipped off about his impending arrest while in the air and stayed on the plane to avoid capture until it flew back to Israel. Scotland Yard detectives were armed with a warrant naming Mr Almog as a war crimes suspect for offences that breached the Geneva conventions."

However, it pushes Israel into finishing off Hamas in Rafah, despite US efforts to pump the brakes.

 

[Margery]

Praying for Israel. Where was the ICC with the arrest warrants for Hamas???? after Oct 7???? But Israel defends herself, and gets arrest warrants????