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EU's Borrell warns Israel for 'threatening' ICC judges

Friday, 24 May 2024 1:55 PM [ Last Update: Friday, 24 May 2024 1:55 PM ]

An exterior view of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, on March 31, 2021. (Photo by Reuters)

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has warned Israel over "threatening" the judges of the International Criminal Court that could soon issue arrest warrants for the regime's prime minister and minister of military affairs.

"I ask everyone, starting with the Israeli government, but also certain European governments, not to intimidate the judges, not to threaten them," Borrell said during an interview with Spanish public television TVE.

He also called for "respect for the International Criminal Court."

Borrell stressed that what the court's prosecutor "has done in presenting a case should not be considered as an anti-Semitic attitude."

ICC prosecutor Karim Khan on Monday said he requested arrest warrants for Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the regime’s minister of military affairs Yoav Gallant on charges of “war crimes” and “crimes against humanity”.

If the court’s judges issued the warrants, any of the 124 ICC member states would technically be obliged to arrest Netanyahu and Gallant if they travelled there.

The court, however, has no mechanism to enforce arrests.

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Israel launched the war on Gaza on October 7 after the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas waged the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the occupying entity in response to the Israeli regime's decades-long campaign of bloodletting and devastation against Palestinians.

Tel Aviv has also blocked water, food, and electricity to Gaza, plunging the coastal strip into a humanitarian crisis.

Since the start of the offensive, the Tel Aviv regime has killed at least 35,800 Palestinians and injured 80,200 more.

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