“It is settled law that the court has jurisdiction in this situation,” Prosecutor Karim Khan wrote in a 49-page legal brief.
Khan called on a panel of ICC pretrial judges to “urgently render its decisions” on the requests he filed in May for warrants for Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and three leaders of Hamas, two of whom have since been killed.
The brief filed by Khan came in response to legal arguments filed by dozens of countries, academics, victims’ groups and rights groups either rejecting or supporting the court’s power to issue arrest warrants in its investigation into the war in Gaza and the October 7 terror atrocities by Hamas that started the ongoing conflict.
In his May request for arrest warrants, Khan accused Netanyahu, Gallant and three Hamas leaders — Yahya Sinwar, Muhammad Deif and Ismail Haniyeh — of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip and Israel. READ MORE
