.Israel’s authorities is actually involved that the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague will issue arrest warrants versus senior Israeli officials in regard to the battle in Gaza. Those on trial might feature Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s head of state, members of his kitchen cabinet as well as generals in the Israel Protection Forces. The ICC possesses not claimed it is actually considering such a move.
Yet Mr Netanyahu felt the threat major enough to state on April 30th that any warrant “will be a shock of historical percentages”. The ICC’s main district attorney, Karim Khan, advised that risks to “strike back” versus the court could weaken its own impartiality. About what reasons will the ICC trouble such warrants, and also what would be the effects?