South American leader asks ICC to issue Netanyahu arrest warrant — RT World News
Colombian President Gustavo Petro described the war in Gaza as “genocide.”
The International Criminal Court and the United Nations Security Council must work to prevent this crime “Genocide” Colombian President Gustavo Petro said on Friday that the Palestinians are in the densely populated city of Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli War Cabinet approved “measured expansion” Following the ongoing military operation in Rafah on Friday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised that West Jerusalem would continue its military campaign against Hamas fighters and “We will fight with our nails” If the United States stops supplying weapons.
Netanyahu will not stop the genocide Petro books On X (formerly Twitter), in response to the Israeli leader's announcement. “This means the issuance of an international arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court.”
The Colombian leader went on to point out that the UN Security Council should do so “Consider establishing a peacekeeping force in the Gaza Strip.”
In a Labor Day speech in Bogota earlier this month, Petro pledged just that Severing diplomatic relations With Israel “Genocide” The leadership, expressing its solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza who “Children died, their limbs were torn apart by bombs.”
The city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip is the last large population center still outside Israeli control. Hundreds of thousands of internally displaced Palestinians have taken refuge there in recent months. Earlier this week, Israel bombed the city and sent troops and dozens of tanks to the eastern regions in what it described as a bombing “Limited” practical.
Several media outlets reported last month that the International Criminal Court may charge Netanyahu and several other high-ranking officials with war crimes over the ongoing war in Gaza. According to Axios, Netanyahu asked US President Joe Biden to prevent the International Criminal Court from prosecuting him, Defense Minister Yoav Galant, and Israeli Army Chief of Staff Herzi Halevy. Representatives of the United States, both Republicans and Democrats, warned the International Criminal Court against this “consequences” In case you go after Israeli officials. A group of Republican lawmakers are now said to be developing sanctions against the court.
Israel launched a military operation against Hamas in Gaza following the armed group's deadly incursion on October 7, which claimed more than 1,200 lives, while hundreds of Israelis were taken hostage. According to Hamas-controlled health authorities, the punitive operation launched by the IDF killed 35,000 Palestinians, most of them civilians.
In January, the United Nations International Court of Justice said in a ruling that it was “reasonable” The Israeli army committed genocide in the densely populated Palestinian Strip.
