Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday that any ruling by the International Criminal Court (ICC) would not affect Israel’s actions.
Netanyahu said this in the wake of media reports in Israel, which indicate the possibility of the ICC issuing international warrants for his arrest.
“The threat to capture soldiers and officials of the only democracy in the Middle East and the only Jewish state in the world is outrageous,” Netanyahu wrote on Platform X.
He emphasized that Israel will continue its war and that under his leadership “it will never accept any attempt by the ICC to undermine its inherent right to self-defense.”
However, no progress has been made so far amid mutual accusations over the failure to achieve a prisoner exchange and cease-fire in Gaza.
Israel has launched an offensive into the Gaza Strip since a cross-border attack by the Palestinian group Hamas on October 7. Since then, more than 34,350 Palestinians have been killed in the enclave.
Israel’s war has pushed 85 percent of the population of the Gaza Strip into internal displacement with acute shortages of food, clean water and medicine, while 60 percent of the enclave’s infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed, according to the United Nations.
Israel is accused of genocide before the International Court of Justice. An interim ruling in January ordered Tel Aviv to stop the genocidal acts and take measures to ensure humanitarian aid is provided to civilians in Gaza, AA writes.
