Hamas welcomes the International Criminal Court’s issuance of arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant and urges countries to get behind it.
“(It’s) an important step toward justice and can lead to redress for the victims in general, but it remains limited and symbolic if it is not supported by all means by all countries around the world,” Hamas political bureau member Bassem Naim says in a statement.
Naim makes no mention of the warrant issued against Hamas’s former military chief Mohammed Deif, who Israel says it killed over the summer. The terror group has yet to confirm his death.
Hamas slams the Biden administration for allegedly “attempting to obstruct the proceedings for months by intimidating the court and its judges,” in a possible reference to sexual misconduct accusations against the ICC’s top prosecutor Karim Khan.
Hamas calls on the court to issue arrest warrants against all Israeli leaders, government ministers and army officers who were involved in the war and urges countries across the world to cooperate with the tribunal to bring Netanyahu and Gallant to justice.
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