‘Moral disgrace of the first order’: Prime Minister’s Office slams ICC prosecutor’s call for arrest warrants

After International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan calls for the issue of arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar “with utmost urgency,” the premier’s office says the move is a “moral disgrace of the first order.”

“The comparison made by the prosecutor in The Hague between the prime minister and the defense minister of Israel, which fights the murderous terrorism of Hamas according to the laws of war; and the war criminal Sinwar, who executes Israeli hostages in cold blood; is antisemitism for its own sake and moral disgrace of the first order,” says a statement from the PMO.

“Unfortunately, we saw from the beginning that the processes in The Hague are politically biased and do not rest on any professional legal basis.”