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La Jornada Newspaper
Friday, November 22, 2024, p. 21
The Hague., The International Criminal Court (ICC) yesterday issued arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and the leader of the armed wing of Hamas, Mohamed Deif, for alleged war crimes. and crimes against humanity.
In its decision, the ICC stated that there were reasonable grounds to believe that Netanyahu and Gallant were criminally responsible for the war crime of famine as a method of war and? intentionally and knowingly deprived to the civilian population of the Gaza Strip with food, water, medicine, medical supplies, fuel and electricity.
He also stated that each of them has criminal responsibility as civilian superiors for the war crime of intentionally directing an attack against the civilian population.
The conflict was unleashed after the violent incursion of Hamas into Israel, leaving some 1,200 dead and another 251 people taken hostage.
Israel’s retaliatory war on land and in the air, along with the blockade, has killed some 44,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, according to health authorities in the besieged territory. About 90 percent of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents have been forced to leave their homes.
The ICC stated that it had found reasonable grounds to believe that Deif was responsible for crimes against humanity of murder, extermination, torture, rape and other forms of sexual violence, as well as war crimes, murder, cruel treatment, torture, hostage-taking, outrages against personal dignity, rape and other forms of sexual violence. Israel declared in August that it killed Deif in an airstrike in Gaza earlier this year.
The move marks a dramatic escalation of judicial proceedings over the Gaza war, as it turns Netanyahu and his co-defendants into internationally wanted suspects and is likely to further isolate them and complicate efforts to negotiate a ceasefire to end the war. 13 month conflict.
It means that the ICC’s 124 member states – including the United Kingdom – would be obliged to detain Netanyahu and Gallant if they entered their territory.
Israel categorically reject the absurd lies against Netanyahu by the ICC, he said in a statement. He added that the premier will not yield to pressure, will not be deterred and will not back down until all our war objectives are achieved.
Netanyahu assured that this action was motivated by antisemitic hate and compared it to the conspiracy suffered at the end of the 19th century by the French army captain Alfred Dreyfus, of Jewish religion.
Israel’s President Isaac Herzog condemned the ICC’s decision; Defense Minister Israel Katz stated that the decision drags the international judicial system to an unprecedented lowand the chancellor, Gideon Saar, asserted that the ICC has lost all legitimacy.
Hamas, on the other hand, welcomed the arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant and described them as a historical precedentas did the Palestinian National Authority, which urged the signatory countries of the Rome Statute to comply with these orders.
In this context, Tel Aviv continued to hit Gaza and Lebanon, where 88 people died in two waves of Israeli bombings in the north of the strip in Gaza City and Beit Lahiya. On the Lebanese front, 52 more people died after Israeli air attacks against various towns in the south and east, in the Bekaa Valley, reported the Lebanese Ministry of Health.
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Israeli forces in Gaza use the Arbel artificial intelligence system, co-produced by Indian company Adani Defense & Aerospace and Israeli Weapons Industries, which turns machine guns and assault rifles into computerized killing machines, Middle East Eye (MEE) reported.
Considered a revolutionary game changer that elevates operator lethality and survivabilitythe Arbel upgrades machine guns and assault weapons, such as the Israeli-made Tavor, Carmel and Negev, into a weapon that uses algorithms to increase soldiers’ ability to hit targets with greater precision and efficiency, MEE says.
He adds that in these 13 months more women and children have died from Israeli fire than in any other conflict in the last 20 years, and nearly a thousand entire families have been exterminated.
According to conservative estimates, the death toll is 44,000, but in a letter to US President Joe Biden, a group of 100 American doctors who were in Gaza estimated the number of Palestinians killed in October at more than 118,000. And another letter published in the medical journal The Lancet He stated that the death toll could exceed 180,000, MEE published.