Warrants issued for Benjamin Netanyahu's arrest on war crimes charges

The Criminal Court of Justice (CPJ) issued a warrant for the arrest of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netayahu on Wednesday. teleSUR

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00:00After a month of deliberation, the International Criminal Court, the ICC, issued international

00:05arrest warrants for Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister

00:10Yoav Golan for war crimes. The arrest warrants, announced on Thursday, were issued for crimes

00:15against humanity and war crimes committed against the Gazan population from at least

00:20October 8th, 2023 until at least May 20th of this year after the court rejected two

00:27Israeli challenges to the court's jurisdiction. The warrants come after six months after the ICC

00:35Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan applied for them and later urged the court's judges to urgently rule

00:41on this request. In a separate statement, the court also announced that Hamas' Mohamed Dave

00:46was subject to international arrest as well.