Khamenei calls for death penalty against Israeli premier

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La Jornada Newspaper
Tuesday, November 26, 2024, p. 20

Tehran. Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said yesterday that courts should issue death sentences instead of arrest warrants against Israel’s leaders, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, for the war crimes.

They have issued an arrest warrant; that is not enough… The death penalty must be imposed for these criminalsKhamenei said, referring to Israeli leaders.

Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Aragchi, called for the formation of an international coalition to prosecute the Israeli authorities and those who support Tel Aviv – particularly the United States – for providing weapons and money to the Israeli regime, to end the genocide in Gaza now. Israel’s aggression against Lebanon.

He noted that the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Netanyahu is a Late but necessary step to try and punish Israeli criminals. He denounced that the Israeli regime uses the concept of antisemitism to silence any criticism against him.

The German government abides by the law because no one is above the lawsaid German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, on the sidelines of a meeting with colleagues from the Group of Seven, in relation to the arrest warrants issued by the ICC on Thursday against Netanyahu and Gallant, for alleged war crimes and against humanity in Gaza.

There is a lot of tension in the Middle East; The parties must avoid escalation, declared the spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Mao Ning, regarding Israel’s threats to Iraq.