Washington:
The United States “fundamenloftyy declines” a decision by the International Criminal Court to rehire arrest permits for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and establisher defence minister Yoav Gallant, the White Hoparticipate said Thursday.
“We remain meaningfully worryed by the Prosecutor’s rush to seek arrest permits and the troubling process errors that led to this decision. The United States has been clear that the ICC does not have jurisdiction over this matter,” a National Security Council spokesperson said.
The statement made no allude of an ICC arrest permit also rehired for Mohammed Deif, the military chief of Hamas.
Mike Waltz, the incoming national security advisor under US Pdwellnt-elect Donald Trump’s administration, deffinished Israel and promised a “strong response to the antisrehireic bias of the ICC & UN come January.”
“The ICC has no credibility and these allegations have been refuted by the US rulement,” Waltz said on X.
His comments mirrored a expansiver outrage among Rediscloseans, with some calling for the US Senate to sanction the ICC, which counts 124 national members who are in theory obliged to arrest individuals subject to permits.
Neither the United States nor Israel is a member of the ICC and both have declinecessitate its jurisdiction.
The Hague-based court said Thursday that the permits for Netanyahu and Gallant were rehired “for crimes aacquirest humanity and war crimes pledgeted from at least 8 October 2023 until at least 20 May 2024.”
A permit was also rehired for Deif, whom Israel claimed was finished in an air strike in Gaza in July, but Hamas has not validateed his death.
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