From Israel files appeal against ICC arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant
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The Prime Minister’s Office says Israel has appealed the International Criminal Court’s decision to issue arrest warrants against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
The PMO’s statement says that Israel’s appeal filing “exposes in detail just how absurd the issuance of arrest warrants was and how it lacks any factual or legal basis.”
The statement adds that if the ICC rejects the appeal it would only “underline to Israel’s friends in the US and the world how biased the International Criminal Court is against Israel.”
The ICC issued arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant last week on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity over their prosecution of the war in Gaza.
The court rejected Israel’s claim that the court should have given Israel notification of its investigation into the conduct of the war, although it said Israel could appeal the court’s jurisdiction after its decision to issue the arrest warrants.
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