.Israel’s government is concerned that the International Wrongdoer Court (ICC) in The Hague will give out detention warrants versus elderly Israeli officials in relation to the battle in Gaza. Those under suspicion might include Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s head of state, participants of his kitchen cabinet and also generals in the Israel Support Troop. The ICC possesses certainly not said it is thinking about such a step.
Yet Mr Netanyahu felt the danger serious adequate to condition on April 30th that any warrant “would be an outrage of historical proportions”. The ICC’s principal prosecutor, Karim Khan, cautioned that hazards to “retaliate” versus the court might undermine its impartiality. About what premises would the ICC issue such warrants, and what would certainly be the consequences?