Israeli Officials Believe I.C.C. Is Preparing Arrest Warrants Over War

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  April 28, 2024, 5:46 p.m. ET

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Israeli officials progressively judge that the International Criminal Court is preparing to contented apprehension warrants for elder authorities officials connected charges related to the struggle with Hamas, according to 5 Israeli and overseas officials.

The Israeli and overseas officials besides judge the tribunal is weighing apprehension warrants for leaders from Hamas.

If the tribunal proceeds, the Israeli officials could perchance beryllium accused of preventing the transportation of humanitarian assistance to the Gaza Strip and pursuing an excessively harsh effect to the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attacks connected Israel, according to 2 of the 5 officials, each of whom spoke connected the information of anonymity due to the fact that they were not authorized to publically sermon the matter.

The Israeli officials, who are disquieted astir the imaginable fallout from specified a case, said they judge that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is among those who mightiness beryllium named in a warrant. It is not wide who mightiness beryllium charged from Hamas oregon what crimes would beryllium cited.

The Israeli officials did not disclose the quality of the accusation that led them to beryllium acrophobic astir imaginable I.C.C. action, and the tribunal did not remark connected the matter.

Arrest warrants from the tribunal would apt beryllium seen successful overmuch of the satellite arsenic a humbling motivation rebuke, peculiarly to Israel, which for months has faced planetary backlash implicit its behaviour successful Gaza, including from President Biden, who called it “over the top.”