Washington:
The US “essentially rejects” a choice by the Worldwide Felony Court docket to concern arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant, the White Home stated Thursday.
“We stay deeply involved by the Prosecutor’s rush to hunt arrest warrants and the troubling course of errors that led to this resolution. The US has been clear that the ICC doesn’t have jurisdiction over this matter,” a Nationwide Safety Council spokesperson stated.
The assertion made no point out of an ICC arrest warrant additionally issued for Mohammed Deif, the army chief of Hamas.
Mike Waltz, the incoming nationwide safety advisor underneath US President-elect Donald Trump’s administration, defended Israel and promised a “robust response to the antisemitic bias of the ICC & UN come January.”
“The ICC has no credibility and these allegations have been refuted by the US authorities,” Waltz stated on X.
His feedback mirrored a wider outrage amongst Republicans, with some calling for the US Senate to sanction the ICC, which counts 124 nationwide members who’re in idea obliged to arrest people topic to warrants.
Neither america nor Israel is a member of the ICC and each have rejected its jurisdiction.
The Hague-based courtroom stated Thursday that the warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant have been issued “for crimes towards humanity and conflict crimes dedicated from no less than 8 October 2023 till no less than 20 Might 2024.”
A warrant was additionally issued for Deif, whom Israel claimed was killed in an air strike in Gaza in July, however Hamas has not confirmed his loss of life.
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