Wakuu,
Mahakama ya Kimataifa ya Uhalifu (ICC) imetoa hati za kukamatwa kwa Waziri Mkuu wa Israeli, Benjamin Netanyahu, na waziri wa zamani wa ulinzi, Yoav Gallant, kwa makosa ya
uhalifu dhidi ya ubinadamu na
uhalifu wa kivita.
Uamuzi huu unamaanisha kwamba nchi 124 wanachama wa ICC zinapaswa kuwakamata Netanyahu na Gallant watakapokanyaga katika maeneo yao.
Soma pia:
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Mahakama hiyo pia ilidai kuwa walikusudia na walijua kwamba Netanyahu na Gallav waliwanyima raia wa Gaza chakula, maji, dawa, vifaa vya matibabu, mafuta, na umeme kwa makusudi.
Netanyahu alikataa madai hayo akiyaita “ya kipuuzi na ya uwongo” na akasema ni “upotoshaji.”
Israel pia imepinga mamlaka ya ICC kwa kusema kuwa nchi nyingine za kidemokrasia hazijawahi kutendewa kwa njia ya upendeleo mbaya kama hiyo, huku ikisisitiza kwamba inaheshimu utawala wa sheria.
Aidha, ICC pia imetoa hati ya kukamatwa kwa kiongozi wa Hamas, Mohammed Deif, kwa makosa ya uhalifu dhidi ya ubinadamu na uhalifu wa kivita.
Hata hivyo, Israel ilidai Agosti kwamba ilimuua Deif katika shambulio la anga lililofanyika Gaza mwezi mmoja kabla.
Netanyahu’s full statement on the ICC’s decision to issue an arrest warrant:
“The anti-Semitic decision by the International Court in The Hague is a modern-day Dreyfus trial, and it will end the same way. 130 years ago, the French Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus was falsely accused of treason by a biased French court. In response to these false accusations, the great French writer Émile Zola wrote his monumental essay, J’Accuse. He condemned the French court for its anti-Semitic lies against an innocent officer who was later exonerated of all guilt. Now, an international court in The Hague, also headed by a French judge, is repeating this outrageous offense.
It is falsely accusing me, the democratically elected Prime Minister of the State of Israel, and Israel’s former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, of deliberately targeting civilians. This, despite the fact that we do everything in our power to avoid civilian casualties. We issue millions of text messages, phone calls, and leaflets to the citizens of Gaza to get them out of harm’s way, while Hamas terrorists do everything in their power to keep them in harm’s way, including shooting at them and using them as human shields. The court in The Hague accuses us of a deliberate policy of starvation, even though we have supplied Gaza with 700,000 tons of food to feed its people.
That amounts to 3,200 calories per day for every man, woman, and child in Gaza. These supplies are routinely looted by Hamas terrorists, who deprive their people of much-needed food. Just in the past few weeks, Israel facilitated the vaccination of 97% of Gaza’s population against polio. Yet, the court accuses us of genocide. What, in God’s name, are they talking about in The Hague?
The truth is simple: no war is more just than the war Israel is waging in Gaza after Hamas attacked us unprovoked, launching the worst massacre against the Jewish people since the Holocaust. The decision to issue an arrest warrant against me, the democratically elected Prime Minister of Israel, and our former Defense Minister, was made by a rogue prosecutor attempting to escape sexual harassment charges and by biased judges motivated by anti-Semitic hatred against the one and only Jewish state. These judges have done nothing—absolutely nothing—against the real war crimes committed by the dictatorships in Iran, Syria, and Yemen, where millions have been murdered or uprooted.
Instead, they falsely accuse the one democracy in the Middle East—Israel—thereby endangering the right of all democracies to defend themselves against murderers, terrorists, and tyrants. Nor has the court acted against the Hamas terrorists who raped our women, beheaded our men, burned babies alive in front of their parents, and kidnapped over 100 men, women, and children, hiding them in the underground dungeons of Gaza. They still hold 101 hostages, including citizens of many nations, among them the United States. And yet, the court did manage to issue one arrest warrant against Hamas. Now hear this: they issued an arrest warrant for the corpse of Hamas arch-terrorist Mohammed Deif. His corpse. What an absurdity.
No biased, anti-Israel decision in The Hague will stop the State of Israel from defending its citizens. I want to thank our many friends around the world, especially those in the United States, who have condemned this outrage and stated that this decision will have severe consequences for the ICC and for those who cooperate with it.
Israel does not, and will not, recognize the validity of this decision. We will continue to do everything necessary to defend our citizens and our state against Iran’s axis of terror: Iran and its terrorist proxies, which include Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and others. Our enemies are your enemies, and our victory will be your victory—the victory of civilization over barbarism and tyranny”