The Israeli-Hamas War of Independence: Charges from the International Criminal Court vs. the Chief Prosecutor
Arrest warrants for Israel and Hamas leaders will be sought from the International Criminal Court, according to the chief prosecutor.
But Hamas strongly condemned attempts by Khan to seek arrest warrants for its leaders, which it said “equate the victim with the executioner.” It argued that Hamas leaders were operating under a right afforded occupied peoples by international treaties to resist occupation in all forms, “including armed resistance.”
He said that an initial investigation by his prosecutorial team has indicated that war crimes and crimes against humanity have been committed, and continue to be committed, by both sides in the Gaza conflict.
The charges Netanyahu and Gallant could face for their role in Israel’s current Gaza military campaign include international attacks on a civilian population, murder and persecution. Khan said the Israeli state under Netanyahu and its military under Gallant have deprived civilians in Gaza of “all objects indispensable to human survival.”
Although Israel does not recognize the International Criminal Court, its response to the prosecutor’s move suggests an acknowledgment of its importance, as well as anger over being placed on a par with Hamas officials.
The court has previously ruled that it can continue to rule over the Palestinian territories because Palestinian political leaders agree to grant the court jurisdiction.
The U.S. and the European Union have designated Hamas as a terrorist organization. Khan says that Sinwar, as the group’s most senior leader in Gaza, should face trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity. He wants Hamas’ top military leader, Mohammed Al-Masri, and the group’s top political figure, Ismail Haniyeh, to be arrested.
Diab — who is known as “the guest” for his habit of staying in a different home every night to avoid detection — and Sinwar are both believed by Israel to be in Gaza. The man who found out his family were Killed by an Israel Airstrike was based in Qatar’s capital city of Doha.
30 years after the Rwandan genocide: What have we learned from the Kerner Commission and what have we forgotten? How Did our Dad and his Dad remember?
Also in a statement, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. “fundamentally rejects” the call for arrest warrants. He said the move could jeopardize diplomacy for a cease-fire and a hostage deal between Israel and Hamas.
If the judges at the International Criminal Court consider Khan’s requests for the warrants are justified and decide to issue them, it could technically mean that if any of the five men travel to one of more than 120 countries that are party to the Rome Statute, they could be arrested and shipped for trial at The Hague. The statute does not specify thatQatar is a party to it. Neither is the U.S.
In recent months, Khan’s prosecutorial team has faced pressure from the US to not ask for warrants against Netanyahu and Israeli officials. Some members of Congress have repeatedly threatened to punish the prosecutor and other court officials if they investigate the United States or its allies, with certain members proposing legislation recently to address this.
“There is no such comparison, we can’t understand it and it is unforgivable,” said Yair Lapid, Netanyahu’s most vocal critic and a major political opponent. He called the decision “a terrible political failure.”
Israel’s President said that Khan’s announcement shows the dire state of the international judicial system.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, and Sudan’s ex-president were indicted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.
30 years ago last month, the country of Rwanda marked the end of the nation’s genocide in which more than one million people died. Today, the country projects an image of post-genocide harmony. Life expectancy is up. The country’s transformation has been incredible, but it’s been not evenly distributed. See photos of Rwanda’s evolution and read about what type of leader is needed for Rwanda to continue to grow and heal.
The Kerner Commission, which was started during the time of the Riot Report, is what came to be known as The Riot Report. They tried to explain not just what happened, but why. It’s enlightening to think about what hasn’t changed and sad to think about what has.
Here’s what I do remember: My Dad, a firefighter, not being able to come home for days and when he did, being so tired he could barely get his uniform off before he fell asleep. The dents in his helmet; he said somebody had thrown bricks. Something about the electricity going out may make it difficult to get water to cook or bathe, and that’s what he said when he called my mom. To her credit, she made a game out of it.
Don’t Get It Twisted: Telling Them What You’re Up to and How You Wanna Be With OpenAI – The Case Against a Motion of the Indigenous Kanak People
Don’t get it twisted: They kept up with the news, belonged to their respective trade unions and never missed an election. But they were not the type to discuss what they considered grown folks’ business with us, except for the occasional “You’re as good as anybody, don’t let anybody tell you different,” “Push ahead, just keep pushing” and my personal favorite — when we saw the scary images of Black folks being set upon with fire hoses or dogs: “Don’t worry, they’ll all be gone when you grow up.”
I was a little kid during the 60s — old enough to know something was going on but not old enough to understand it. My parents weren’t “activists,” so unlike some of my peers, I don’t have any memories of being taken to marches and such.
A proposal to give voting rights to non-Indigenous residents of the archipelago led to deadly rioting, which led to the arrival of more than 1,000 French police. A pro-independence coalition made up of the indigenous Kanak people objected to the constitutional amendment, saying it would dilute their voice. Though the violence has calmed, the airport is still closed, and some tourists remain stranded.
Scarlett Johansson’s legal team is demanding that OpenAI disclose how it developed the voice for its AI personal assistant. The actress thinks it sounds similar to her. At last week’s live demonstration, many people compared the voice of the artificial intelligence to that of the female voice in the movie Her, where a man falls in love with a computer voice. OpenAI said the voice wasn’t patterned after Johansson but that it was disabling it.
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