The speaker of Israel’s Knesset said Thursday the International Criminal Court’s issuance of warrants for the arrests of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant are an assault on “the universal right of self-defense” and mark a “dark day for international law.”
The ICC accused Netanyahu and Gallant of committing the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare, and crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts in Israel’s war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip following the Iranian-backed group’s terrorist attack on Oct. 7, 2023.
“Targeting the democratically elected leaders of Israel, the Middle East’s only democracy and the world’s only Jewish state, is nothing short of an assault on justice, truth, and the universal right of self-defense,” wrote Amir Ohana, who has been speaker of Israel’s Knesset since 2022, in a post on X. “This decision marks a dark day in the history of international law. Rather than upholding the principles of justice, the ICC has chosen to politicize its mandate, turning itself into a tool of terrorists and those who seek to delegitimize Israel’s right to exist and defend its citizens from genocidal terror.”
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