The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) followed up on the arrest and detention warrants issued today by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court against only two war criminals of the Zionist entity. They are “Benjamin Netanyahu” and “Yoav Gallant,” who were proven to be involved in committing the crime of genocide, aggression and crimes against humanity against the Palestinian people.
The arrest and detention warrants against the aforementioned occupation leaders came seven months late, during which the “israeli” occupation committed thousands of crimes against Palestinian civilians, including children, women, doctors, and journalists, and destroyed private and public property, mosques, churches, and hospitals.
The Public Prosecutor should have arrest and detention orders against all officials from the occupation leaders who gave orders, and soldiers who participated in committing crimes, in accordance with Articles 25, 27 and 28 of the Rome Statute, which emphasized the individual criminal responsibility of every official, commander, or any person who ordered, or instigated, committed, assisted or aided in the commission of crimes, or failed to take measures to prevent the commission of crimes.
The Hamas movement strongly denounces the attempts of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to equate the victim with the executioner by issuing arrest warrants against a number of Palestinian resistance leaders, without a legal basis, in violation of the international conventions and resolutions that gave the Palestinian people and all the peoples of the world under occupation the right to resist the occupation in all forms, including armed resistance, especially as stipulated in Article 51 of the United Nations Charter.
Hamas demands the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to issue arrest and detention orders against all war criminals, including occupation leaders, officers and soldiers who participated in crimes against the Palestinian people.
It also demands the cancellation of all arrest warrants issued against Palestinian resistance leaders, as these warrants violate international conventions and resolutions.
The ICC is a joke. Their warrant against Putin was already utterly absurd and exposed them as nothing more than a political tool of the West, and now this “both sides” bullshit where they have the audacity to equate the victims of occupation and genocide with the perpetrators of those crimes is the final nail in the coffin of their legitimacy in the eyes of the global majority. And it’s long overdue, this institution was built from the start to prosecute colonized people for the benefit of colonizers.
ICJ or ICC? Am confused…
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) and genocide are once again in the media, with a case brought by South Africa against Israel in December 2023.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) made news in 2023 for issuing an arrest warrant for war crimes against Russian President Vladimir Putin. The ICC Prosecutor also has an open investigation into the situation in Israel and Palestine
This article is about the ICC. ICC announced warrants against Palestinian resistance leaders and Zionist officials. ICJ in the case brought by South Africa ruled that the Zionist entity may be committing genocide and must stop its attacks.
ICC is for individuals, ICJ is for countries. The ICJ is a much more serious institution and less under the control of the West because it’s tied to the UN. ICC so far has mainly convicted Africans. It is clearly a colonial court (recently the head of the ICC even came out and said that a Western official told him, quote: “the ICC is for Africa and thugs like Putin”) and its warrants against Zionist officials are a transparent face saving measure.
The ICJ is a much more serious institution and less under the control of the West because it’s tied to the UN
It suffers the exact same problems because any of the hegemonic western countries can just ignore their rulings. Look at Nicaragua v. US for example. No court that relies on a system where the US has veto power can ever function.
