The decision to zoom in on just Netanyahu and Gallant was likely motivated by the view that they represented the apex of Israel’s military campaign against Gaza and its people.
Recently, a classified report by a US government watchdog discovered that Israeli military units have committed “many hundreds” of potential violations of US human rights law in the Gaza Strip. The findings by the State Department’s Office of Inspector General mark the first time a US government report has acknowledged the scale of Israeli actions in Gaza that fall under the purview of the Leahy Laws that bar US assistance to foreign military units credibly accused of gross human rights abuses. Indirectly, these findings also highlight US complicity in the Gaza genocide, due to continuing arms transfers and financing.
Conveniently, the story was released only after two years of Israel’s genocidal atrocities in Gaza. In light of an avalanche of international reports during the period, the classified report represents the tip of the iceberg.
And yet, in November 2024, after an investigation of war crimes and crimes against humanity, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for only two Israeli government leaders: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and his former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant. The two were alleged to be responsible for the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare and for crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts in the early part of the Gaza war (genocide was not included).
Notably, the warrant against Netanyahu was the first against the leader of the US-led West-backed country for war crimes. But were the two really the sole cabinet leaders responsible for the genocidal atrocities?
Effectively, there are circles of Israeli officials who share complicity for the Gaza genocide, including high-profile ministers, internationally lesser-known enablers, military and intelligence architects of obliteration, Netanyahu’s veteran advisor and the President. (more...)
Netanyahu Cabinet’s Complicity in the Gaza Genocide
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