Palestine Envoy To UK Welcomes ICC Arrest Warrants For Netanyahu, Calls For Full Accountability

LONDON, Nov 21 (Bernama-AA) -- Palestine's envoy to the United Kingdom (UK) on Thursday called for the “full force of law” to be equally applied to “Israeli war criminals” after the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced it had issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant.

According to the Anadolu Agency (AA), Ambassador Husam Zomot hailed the ICC arrest warrants, calling them a step towards accountability and justice in Palestine.

"Let the full force of law be equally applied to Israeli war criminals, and not only for the last 412 days but for the last 28,000 days," he wrote on X, referring to the Nakba (“Catastrophe”) of 1948, the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians through their violent displacement and dispossession of their land, property and belongings.

In a landmark move, the ICC on Thursday announced it had issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant over war crimes it accuses them of carrying out in Palestinian territories, including Gaza.

The warrants come as Israel’s genocidal offensive in Gaza recently entered its second year, having already killed some 44,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, and injured over 103,000 others.

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