Israel announced on Friday that it had formally objected to the decision announced by the International Criminal Court's prosecutor in May to request arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Defense Minister Yoav Galant.
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“The State of Israel today presented its official challenge to the [compétence] To the International Criminal Court [dans cette affaire] “And the legitimacy of the attorney general’s request,” Oren Marmorstein, a spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry, wrote in a message on the social network X.
The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, requested international arrest warrants for M.M. Netanyahu and Galant, as well as a number of leaders of the Palestinian Islamic Hamas movement, on charges of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip and Israel.
Against this decision, “Israel submitted two comprehensive legal opinions,” Mr. Marmorstein wrote, without specifying to which body or jurisdiction these documents were sent.
Initially, Israel stressed that the whole matter clearly did not fall within the jurisdiction of the ICC, the spokesman said.
In the second letter, Mr. Marmorstein notes that Israel details “violations by the Prosecutor of the Court’s Statute and the principle of complementarity, in that he did not give Israel the opportunity to exercise its right to investigate the allegations himself.” The Prosecutor “made them before he referred his request to the Court.”
