The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas This Monday he accused the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (CPI) of “comparing the victim with the executioner” by issuing arrest warrants against leaders of the Islamist formation, along with the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahuand the Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallant.
The ICC prosecutor today also ordered the arrest of Yahya Sinwar, head of Hamas in Gaza; Mohamed Deif, chief commander of the al Qasam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamist group, as well as Ismail Haniyeh, head of the Hamas political bureau, self-exiled in Qatar.
“We strongly condemn the attempts of the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to compare the victim with the executioner by issuing arrest warrants against several leaders of the Palestinian resistance, without legal basis,” said a Hamas statement.
According to the Islamist formation, which governs the Gaza Strip Since 2007, the ICC decision violates “international treaties and resolutions that granted the Palestinian people and other peoples of the world under occupation the right to resist occupation in any form, including armed resistance, as specified in Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations.
For its part, Israel has considered the CPI’s decision a “blood libel” and its president, Isaac Herzog, described the order as “scandalous” by putting the country’s leaders on the same level with “terrorists”.
Israel signed but did not ratify the Rome Statute, establishing the International Criminal Court.
Hamas considered that the arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant, whom the Islamists accuse of genocide, and war crimes and crimes against humanity against the Palestinian people, should have arrived seven months ago; and he hoped that the ICC would issue more orders against “all war criminals, including occupation leaders, officers and soldiers who participated in those crimes.”
The war in the Strip began on October 7, after an attack by Hamas on Israeli soil that left some 1,200 dead and 253 kidnapped.
More than seven months of constant bombing and humanitarian blockade have caused the death of more than 35,500 Palestinians – more than 70% women and children – and almost 80,000 wounded, in addition to some 10,000 bodies trapped under the rubble.
Furthermore, almost the entire Gazan population is displaced, with a lack of medicine, food and drinking water.
Source: Gestion
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