Legal Affairs
Three of the four suspects were named: Ofer Doron, Itai Yaffe and Amir Sade. The name of the fourth suspect was withheld.
By calling for the arrest of Israel’s leaders, the ICC is violating the Rome Statute.
While ending the fighting in Lebanon and Gaza is necessary to “start the peace,” Palestinian society must also be “transformed,” Sen. Lindsey Graham tells reporters in Jerusalem.
Israel rejects the authority of the International Criminal Court and the legitimacy of the arrest warrants it has issued.
A former IDF intelligence official previously suggested the Palestinian Authority was involved in the Hamas-led massacre.
The immunities “will have to be taken into account should the ICC request of us their arrest and surrender,” the French government stated on Wednesday.
Israeli experts weigh in on the various ways the country could respond to the controversial ruling.
Robert Wood also stated the United States is “concerned by increasing extremist settler violence” in the region.
Charges will “mean what people want it to mean, without ever being fully litigated,” a retired lieutenant colonel said.
“J Street should now be persona non grata in the Jewish community,” Morton Klein, national president of ZOA, told JNS.
The former defense minister will travel on a regular flight, risking an emergency landing in a country that accepts the court’s jurisdiction.
“If there were to be such a visit to the U.K., there would be a court process and due process would be followed in relation to those issues,” the U.K. foreign minister said.
