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Well, somebody got enough dirt that it looks like the line remains verified child abuse. Thank goodness. It's a start.
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Well, somebody got enough dirt that it looks like the line remains verified child abuse. Thank goodness. It's a start.
solewoman
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Just curious…who in the new cabinet DOSEN’T have some sort of SA charges or accusations?
Disgusting
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MakeNTGreatAgain
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need this nipped in the bud mane
International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Hamas officials
The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defense minister and Hamas officials, accusing them of war crimes and crimes against humanity over actions taken during their 13-month war in Gaza and the October 2023 attack on Israapnews.com
International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Hamas officials
By MOLLY QUELL
THE HAGUE (AP) — The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants on Thursday for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defense minister and Hamas officials, accusing them of war crimes and crimes against humanity over their 13-month war in Gaza and the October 2023 attack on Israel respectively.
Netanyahu condemned the arrest warrant against him, saying Israel “rejects with disgust the absurd and false actions.” In a statement released by his office, he said: “There is nothing more just than the war that Israel has been waging in Gaza.”
The decision turns Netanyahu and the others into internationally wanted suspects and is likely to further isolate them and complicate efforts to negotiate a cease-fire to end the fighting. But its practical implications could be limited since Israel and its major ally, the United States, are not members of the court and two of the Hamas officials were killed in the conflict.
Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders have condemned ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan’s request for warrants as disgraceful and antisemitic. U.S. President Joe Biden blasted the prosecutor and expressed support for Israel’s right to defend itself against Hamas. Hamas also slammed the request.
The three-judge panel issued a unanimous decision to issue warrants for Netanyahu and his former defense minister, Yoav Gallant.
“The Chamber considered that there are reasonable grounds to believe that both individuals intentionally and knowingly deprived the civilian population in Gaza of objects indispensable to their survival, including food, water, and medicine and medical supplies, as well as fuel and electricity,” the decision said.
The court also issued a warrant for Mohammed Deif, one of the leaders of Hamas, over the October 2023 attacks that triggered Israel’s offensive in Gaza. The ICC chief prosecutor withdrew his request for warrants for two other senior Hamas figures, Yahya Sinwar and Ismail Haniyeh, after they were both killed in the conflict.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry said in September that it had submitted two legal briefs challenging the ICC’s jurisdiction and arguing that the court did not provide Israel the opportunity to investigate the allegations itself before requesting the warrants.
“No other democracy with an independent and respected legal system like that which exists in Israel has been treated in this prejudicial manner by the Prosecutor,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Oren Marmorstein wrote on X. He said Israel remained “steadfast in its commitment to the rule of law and justice” and would continue to protect its citizens against militancy.
The ICC is a court of last resort that only prosecutes cases when domestic law enforcement authorities cannot or will not investigate. Israel is not a member state of the court. The country has struggled to investigate itself in the past, rights groups say.
Despite the warrants, none of the suspects is likely to face judges in The Hague anytime soon. The court itself has no police to enforce warrants, instead relying on cooperation from its member states.
Even so, the threat of arrest could make it difficult for Netanyahu and Gallant to travel abroad, although Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is wanted on an ICC warrant for alleged war crimes in Ukraine, recently showed he could still visit an ally when he traveled to Mongolia, one of the court’s member states, and was not arrested.
Member countries are required to detain suspects if a warrant has been issued if they set foot on their soil, but the court lacks a mechanism to enforce its warrants.
Khan sought warrants in May, accusing Netanyahu and Gallant of crimes including murder, intentionally attacking civilians, and persecution.
In a statement at the time, Khan alleged that Israel “has intentionally and systematically deprived the civilian population in all parts of Gaza of objects indispensable to human survival” by closing border crossings into the territory and restricting essential supplies including food and medicine.
At the same time, he accused three Hamas leaders — Sinwar, Deif and Haniyeh — of crimes linked to the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks, when Hamas-led militants stormed into southern Israel, killing some 1,200 people and abducting another 250. The three leaders are accused of crimes including murder, extermination, taking hostages, rape and torture.
“The Chamber found reasonable grounds to believe that Mr Deif, born in 1965, the highest commander of the military wing of Hamas (known as the al-Qassam Brigades) at the time of the alleged conduct, is responsible for the crimes against humanity of murder; extermination; torture; and rape and other form of sexual violence; as well as the war crimes of murder, cruel treatment, torture; taking hostages; outrages upon personal dignity; and rape and other forms of sexual violence,” a statement says.
Haniyeh was assassinated in what was believed to be an Israeli strike in Iran in July. Israel also claims to have killed Deif, but Hamas hasn’t confirmed his death. Sinwar, who was promoted to succeed Haniyeh as Hamas’ leader, was killed in a chance front-line encounter with Israeli troops in October.
Human rights groups have applauded the decision, which came more than six months after Khan made his initial request.
“The ICC arrest warrants against senior Israeli leaders and a Hamas official break through the perception that certain individuals are beyond the reach of the law,” the associate international justice director at Human Rights Watch, Balkees Jarrah, said in a statement.
Israel’s opposition leaders fiercely criticized the ICC’s move. Benny Gantz, a retired general and political rival to Netanyahu, condemned the decision, saying it showed “moral blindness” and was a “shameful stain of historic proportion that will never be forgotten.”
Yair Lapid, another opposition leader, called it a “prize for terror.”
Yuval Shany, an international law expert at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University, said travel for Netanyahu and Gallant to member states of the court could be complicated, including to countries that are close allies of Israel, like France or Britain.
As members, they are obliged to carry out court decisions, including arrest warrants, although the court has no formal way to enforce its decisions, Shany said — as Putin’s Mongolia trip showed.
The case at the ICC is separate from another legal battle Israel is waging at the top U.N. court, the International Court of Justice, in which South Africa accuses Israel of genocide, an allegation Israeli leaders staunchly deny. Lawyers for Israel argued in court that the war in Gaza was a legitimate defense of its people and that it was Hamas militants who were guilty of genocide.
In the wake of the Oct. 7 attack, Israel launched a retaliatory offensive into Gaza that has killed more than 40,000 Palestinians, according to local health officials, who don’t say how many were fighters. It has displaced 90% of Gaza’s 2.3 million people from their homes and caused heavy destruction across the besieged territory.
Hamas is still holding around 100 hostages, about a third of whom are believed to be dead. Most of the rest were released in exchange for Palestinians imprisoned by Israel during a cease-fire last November.
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The report has gotta be as damning if not worse than everyone assumes to be too radioactive for even this GOP
He shouldn't be in congress either
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At least Gaetz is out of Congress. He really took a gamble on quitting to stop the release of the report. Dude's never getting elected to anything ever again.Only to be replaced by Hulk Hogan
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He's not in Congress.The report has gotta be as damning if not worse than everyone assumes to be too radioactive for even this GOP
He shouldn't be in congress either
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Those full disclosures were about to cook these fools
big j 33
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A brief moment of sanity in an otherwise chaotic world.
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Another body blow
dblplay1212
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He absolutely knew this is how this was going to go. He stepped down right away for a reason, knowing he was unlikely to get confirmed, so now he can play victim.
superblytrife
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Grand opening, grand closing for Gaetz.
Hope that sexual deviant gets everything he deserves. Now the real question is whether or not Kid Rock will be the next AG nomination.
Hope that sexual deviant gets everything he deserves. Now the real question is whether or not Kid Rock will be the next AG nomination.
uncalled4boy
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dacomeup
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I just assume that he’s going to have someone even worse appointed at this point
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I just assume that he’s going to have someone even worse appointed at this point
My buddy said watch, he'll just put Rob Schneider in there now.
yobyellav
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Glad I was wrong about gaetz becoming ag. **** gotta be real bad for him in that report.
yobyellav
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Doubt he stepped down to play victim. If he knew anything, it was that the report would prevent him being ag AND force him to leave Congress. He was just getting out in front of it.
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The only problem with Matt Gaetz was that there was too much evidence linking him to his crimesI just assume that he’s going to have someone even worse appointed at this point
aepps20
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I hope Nestor is doing ok.
ghenges
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You underestimate the stupidity and blind allegiance of republican voters. These people are bat**** insane and easily fooled.
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Matt Gaetz is highly unpopular even amongst Republicans. Never say never but even if DeSanctimonious hands him the senate seat he’d get clobbered in an attempt to be re-elected.
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He's still trying to get access to his PayPal account back. Poor kid!
aepps20
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ghenges
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I doubt the voters will care. I live in Florida. These people are crazy. All he has to do is run as a Republican in one of the many red districts and it's a shoe in.
Republican voters are separated from reality. All of these allegations made against him are just the "liberal media" putting out fake news. They think it's all made up, the victims are being paid off by George Soros and any physical evidence is AI generated deep fakes.
Republican voters are separated from reality. All of these allegations made against him are just the "liberal media" putting out fake news. They think it's all made up, the victims are being paid off by George Soros and any physical evidence is AI generated deep fakes.
