Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) knocked the Worldwide Prison Courtroom (ICC) over its arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and ex-Israeli Protection Minister Yoav Gallant.
“The International Corrupt Criminal Court has acted in the most absurd and irresponsible manner possible by issuing arrest warrants against the Prime Minister and former Defense Minister of Israel while there is a serious cloud of allegations hanging over the prosecutor who sought these warrants,” Graham mentioned in a put up on the social platform X on Thursday.
The ICC issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant, in addition to Hamas chief Mohammed Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri, it mentioned in a pair of separate press releases Thursday. The warrants allege that the leaders have dedicated battle crimes and crimes towards humanity amid the continued battle in Gaza between Israel and Hamas.
“The Court is a dangerous joke. It is now time for the U.S. Senate to act and sanction this irresponsible body. The Court defied every concept of fundamental fairness and legitimized a corrupt prosecutor’s actions,” Graham mentioned in his X put up Thursday.
Netanyahu’s workplace additionally closely criticized the ICC on Thursday, calling it “a biased and discriminatory political body” in an announcement initially in Hebrew that was translated to English, in response to the workplace.
“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not going to give in to stress. He’ll proceed to pursue all of the targets that Israel got down to obtain in its simply battle towards Hamas and the Iranian axis of terror,’ the assertion mentioned.
The Israel-Hamas battle started because of a lethal assault on Israel by the Palestinian militant group on Oct. 7 of final yr, leaving 1,200 folks lifeless. Over 43,000 Palestinians have since died within the battle, which lately crossed over the size of a yr.
The Hill has reached out to the ICC and the ICC’s Workplace of the Prosecutor for remark.
