Lapid calls for PM to announce state commission of inquiry as part of ICC appeal

Opposition Leader Yair Lapid calls on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to announce the formation of a state commission of inquiry alongside Israel’s appeal against the ICC arrest warrants for the premier and former defense minister Yoav Gallant, declaring that doing so would be “for the benefit of the state and also [Netanyahu’s] own benefit.”

Such a move seems highly unlikely, however, as Netanyahu has refused to commit to the formation of such a committee and repeatedly insisted any investigation into the failures surrounding Hamas’s terror onslaught last year be put off until after the war.

According to an Israeli television report in September, Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara told Netanyahu and other ministers that impaneling a state commission of inquiry — which enjoys the broadest powers under Israeli law — was the best way to stave off international arrest warrants.