Legal Affairs
The document, which centers on jurisdiction and procedure, does not mention the allegations against ICC prosecutor Karim Khan.
Karim Khan allegedly told accuser to think of “the justice of the victims” in Gaza and asked her to drop her allegations.
‘It’s just a question of whether we have the guts and the determination to ensure that these butchers receive the maximum punishment,” said IDF Lt. Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch.
“A reminder that it takes a lot to deter civil terrorism,” stated Tal Fortgang, a legal policy fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
“Countries of moral clarity should take an example from Hungary and withdraw from the ICC,” the Israeli prime minister wrote.
“Novel legal interpretations will not bring an end to the ongoing conflict,” said an attorney for the U.S. State Department. “They will not bring the hostages home.”
The court has reportedly barred ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan from publicly disclosing the existence of arrest warrant applications related to the Gaza War.
Explaining the decision to sit out ICJ hearings, Gideon Sa’ar went on the offensive against U.N. antisemitism and its secretary-general.
The State of Israel “will not take the defendant’s stand” at the United Nations, said Gideon Sa’ar at JNS International Policy Summit.
Among other things, he said his maternal grandparents had survived the Holocaust.
“The ICC Appeals Court instructed the Court today, to do what it should have done from the start,” said Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar.
The civilian-court indictments seem to preclude capital punishment and may establish the legal scaffolding for prosecuting hundreds more Hamas prisoners.
