The ICC issued arrest warrants in November for Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the besieged Gaza Strip.
Karim Khan, the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC), has defended the issuance of an arrest warrant against Israel’s prime minister for alleged war crimes in Gaza, accusing Israel of making “no real effort” to investigate the charges.
“We’re here as a court of last resort and …as we speak right now, we haven’t seen any real effort by the State of Israel to take action that would meet the established jurisprudence, which is investigations regarding the same suspects for the same conduct,” Khan told Reuters in an interview on Thursday. “That can change and I hope it does.”
The ICC issued arrest warrants in November for Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the besieged Gaza Strip. The order compels the ICC’s 124 member states to arrest them should they enter their territory.
Noting that Israel had good legal expertise, Khan said Israel could still demonstrate its willingness to investigate, he reportedly said.
The Reuters report said an Israeli probe “could have led to the case being handed back to Israeli courts under so-called complementary principles.”
However, he said “the question is have those judges, have those prosecutors, have those legal instruments been used to properly scrutinise the allegations that we’ve seen in the occupied Palestinian territories, in the State of Palestine? And I think the answer to that was ‘no’.” (more...)
ICC Chief: Israel Failing to Make ‘Real Effort’ in Investigating Gaza War Crimes
International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan said Israel had made "no real effort" to investigate war crimes accusations brought against it during the war in Gaza.
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In an interview with Reuters, Khan also stood by his decision over the arrest warrant issued against… pic.twitter.com/f0a7nPmkeS
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