Arrest Warrants Sought For Netanyahu and Hamas Leader

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Post At: May 20/2024 07:50PM

The International Criminal Court is seeking arrest warrants for both the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.

Karim Khan, the ICC's chief prosecutor, shared the news with CNN on Monday.

The charges against Sinwar, and other Hamas leaders, include "extermination, murder, taking of hostages, rape and sexual assault in detention."

The charges against Netanyahu, and also Israel's Minister of Defence Yoav Gallant, were laid out as "causing extermination, causing starvation as a method of war, including the denial of humanitarian relief supplies, deliberately targeting civilians in conflict."

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