Alongside the Israeli leaders, Khan also announced that he is seeking arrest warrants for Hamas’s senior leadership — Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif, and Ismail Haniyeh.
Should the warrants be granted by the court’s judges, Netanyahu would join the ranks of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, former Sudanese despot Omar al-Bashir, and the now-deceased tyrant of Libya Muammar Gaddafi — all national leaders against whom arrest orders have been issued.
But Netanyahu would become the first ever leader of a Western-oriented country to be charged by the ICC.
“This is a watershed event in the history of international justice,” Reed Brody, a veteran war crimes prosecutor, told Reuters. “The ICC has never, in over 21 years of existence, indicted a Western official. Indeed, no international tribunal since Nuremberg (against representatives of Nazi Germany) has done so.” READ MORE
