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.
Nothing about the thousands of hostages taken by the apartheid stage and the tens of thousands killed just a rather vauge "murder and persecution of Palestinians". Also including the "sexual violence against hostages" line in direct contradiction of all the testimony from returned hostages suggests this might not be all it's cracked up to be.
Link to their report:
https://www.icc-cpi.int/about/otp/special-advisers-to-the-prosecutor/panel-of-experts-in-international-law/report-of-the-panel-of-experts-in-international-law
Having very briefly skimmed it, it appears the focus of their complaint against Israel is based around intentional starvation and blocking of aid with very little reference to constant bombardment of civilian population, collective punishment, targetting hospitals, doctors, assassinations, etc. etc.
It seems harsh to be unhappy with them being charged with crimes against humanity but it does seem rather limited, at least when it comes to the apartheid state and much more wide ranging and specific when it comes to Hamas.
I guess we'll see.
...no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party...So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
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