ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrant for Netanyahu

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00:00 Let's start first with this latest from the International Criminal Court, and the chief

00:03 prosecutor there has asked for arrest warrants, first of all, against the Israeli Prime Minister

00:09 Benjamin Netanyahu for alleged war crimes. Another warrant was issued against the Israeli

00:14 Defense Minister Yoav Galant. The ICC prosecutor also asking for arrest warrants for three

00:20 Hamas leaders for their alleged roles in the October 7th attacks in Israel.

00:27 On the basis of evidence collected and examined and analyzed by my office, I have reasonable

00:34 grounds to believe that three senior leaders of Hamas, Yahya Sinwa, Mohammed Da'if, and

00:43 Ismail Haniyeh, bear criminal responsibility for the following international crimes committed

00:51 on the territory of Israel and the state of Palestine from at least the 7th of October,

00:58 2023.

00:59 Well, we're going to get more reaction now from Iris Mackler, who is live in Jerusalem

01:04 for us. Iris, we just heard what Karim Khan, the ICC prosecutor, had to say about the Hamas

01:08 leaders. What did he have to say about Israeli leaders?

01:12 He said that he was also going to seek arrest warrants against the Prime Minister and the

01:16 Defense Minister for crimes including using starvation as a weapon of war, attacking civilians

01:25 during warfare, and other crimes against humanity. If he does succeed, it now goes to an ICC

01:33 panel of judges. If they do charge the two Israeli leaders, it will be the first time

01:38 that an ally of the United States has been charged in this way, a close ally of the United

01:45 States. It's important to say that neither the US nor Israel are members of the ICC,

01:50 but that Karim Khan says that the ICC has jurisdiction because the Palestinians have

01:55 given him leave to investigate what happens in East Jerusalem, what happens in the West

02:00 Bank, and what happens in Gaza. And that occurred back in 2015. So that's what the state of

02:05 play is at the moment. And we don't yet know if it will happen, but it would be huge if

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