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The Israeli Minister of Finance:

Rafah must be completely and forcefully occupied, and the army’s control must be extended over the entire Gaza Strip


You mean your army, which has become a laughing stock🤡🤡🤡

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The panel consulted by Karim Khan for the ICC (Lord Justice Fulford, Judge Theodor Meron CMG, Amal Clooney, Danny Friedman KC, Baroness Helena Kennedy LT KC, Elizabeth Wilmshurst CMG KC) has detailed their views on the conflict in an article in the Financial Times.


The attacks by Hamas in Israel on October 7 and the military response by Israeli forces in Gaza have tested the system of international law to its limits. This is why, as international lawyers, we felt compelled to assist when the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, asked us to advise whether there was sufficient evidence to lay charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

For months, we have engaged in an extensive process of review and analysis. We have carefully examined each of the applications for arrest warrants, as well as underlying material produced by the prosecution team in support of the applications. This has included witness statements, expert evidence, official communications, videos and photographs. In our legal report published today, we unanimously agree that the prosecutor’s work was rigorous, fair and grounded in the law and the facts. And we unanimously agree that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the suspects he identifies have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity within the jurisdiction of the ICC.

We were selected because of our expertise in public international law, international human rights law, international humanitarian law and international criminal law, and, in the case of two of us, experience as former judges of international criminal tribunals. Our common goal is advancing accountability and we have reached our conclusions based on an assessment of the warrant applications against an objective legal standard. We have reached these conclusions unanimously. And we believe it is important to publish them given the extent to which discourse has been politicised, disinformation has been rife and international media has been denied access to the front lines.

The Panel unanimously agrees with the prosecutor’s conclusion that there are reasonable grounds to believe that three of Hamas’s most senior leaders — Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif and Ismail Haniyeh — have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity for the killing of hundreds of civilians, the taking of at least 245 hostages and acts of sexual violence committed against Israeli hostages.

The Panel also unanimously agrees that the evidence presented by the prosecutor provides reasonable grounds to believe that Netanyahu and Israel’s minister of defence Yoav Gallant have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity. This includes the war crime of intentionally using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare and the murder and persecution of Palestinians as crimes against humanity.

It is important to understand that the charges have nothing to do with the reasons for the conflict. The charges concern waging war in a manner that violates the long-established rules of international law that apply to armed groups and the armed forces in every state in the world. There is no conflict that should be excluded from the reach of the law; no child’s life valued less than another’s. The law we apply is humanity’s law, not the law of any given side. It must protect all the victims of this conflict; and all civilians in conflicts to come.


Lord Justice Fulford, retired lord justice of appeal, former vice-president of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales and former judge at the International Criminal Court

Judge Theodor Meron CMG, visiting professor at the University of Oxford, honorary fellow, Trinity College, and former judge and former president of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

Amal Clooney, barrister, adjunct professor at Columbia Law School and co-founder of the Clooney Foundation for Justice

Danny Friedman KC, barrister, expert in criminal law, international law and human rights

Baroness Helena Kennedy LT KC, barrister, member of the House of Lords and director of the International Bar Association Human Rights Institute

Elizabeth Wilmshurst CMG KC, former deputy legal adviser at the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office and distinguished fellow of international law at Chatham House

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Naftali Bennett, former Israeli Prime Minister:

Hamas will not stop its terrorist acts until we destroy it, and there is no other option

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A heart-wrenching scene of a Palestinian mother embraced her beloved daughter's bed, who was killed in an Israeli artillery shelling east of Khan Younis city, south of Gaza.

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Soldiers began a protest in favor of the soldier who appears in the video calling for the overthrow of Gallant.

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This infant is suffering from malnutrition due to the siege and starvation war waged by the Israeli occupation army on the Gaza Strip.

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Al Jazeera correspondent:

The Knesset approves a preliminary reading of a draft law to sever ties with UNRWA and declare it a terrorist organization

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Yatom to Channel 13:

I am ready to do everything, including what Hamas demands, because I know that the prisoners’ time is running out and the Gaza Strip will remain as it is.

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Wikipedia co-founder explains why today’s Wikipedia cannot be trusted.

Just pick a big event you have lived through, look it up there, and you’ll discover the facts aren’t reported right.

It is particularly evident when it comes to the history of the conflict between Israel and Palestine, yet not exclusive to that.

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