US President Joe Biden issued a strongly worded statement denouncing Khan’s announcement, saying “whatever this prosecutor might imply, there is no equivalence — none — between Israel and Hamas.”
Following the request by the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) chief prosecutor to seek arrest warrants for Israeli leaders in connection with the seven-month war in Gaza, the US and Israel have both vehemently lashed out at the ICC move, the media reported.
The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor sought arrest warrants for Israeli officials for the Gaza war. In his announcement, the ICC chief prosecutor said he believes Netanyahu, Gallant and three Hamas leaders — Yehia Sinwar, Mohammed Deif and Ismail Haniyeh — are responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip and Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan’s announcement a “disgrace” and an attack on the Israeli military and all of Israel while pledging to press ahead with Israel’s war against Hamas.
US President Joe Biden issued a strongly worded statement denouncing Khan’s announcement, saying “whatever this prosecutor might imply, there is no equivalence — none — between Israel and Hamas.”
Israeli Prime Minister Yoav Gallant had earlier said the military would expand its operations in the southern Gaza city of Rafah in its efforts to crush Hamas.
“As prime minister of Israel, I reject with disgust the Hague prosecutor’s comparison between democratic Israel and the mass murders of Hamas,” Netanyahu said.
“No pressure and no decision in any international forum will prevent us from striking those who seek to destroy us,” he claimed.
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