And he said Netanyahu In a statement issued by his office, he said, “The anti-Semitic decision issued by the International Criminal Court can be compared to the Dreyfus trial, and will end in the same way,” referring to the case of the Jewish captain. Dreyfus Who was unjustly convicted of treason in France in the nineteenth century.
Netanyahu added: “There is nothing more just than the war that Israel has been waging in Gaza since October 7, 2023 (after Hamas launched a bloody attack on it) and carried out the largest massacre committed against the Jewish people since the Holocaust.”
He stressed that he “will not give in to pressure, will not back down, and will not withdraw from… Gaza Strip “Unless all the war objectives set by Israel at the beginning of the campaign are achieved.”
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar wrote on the X platform: “This is a dark moment for the International Criminal Court in The Hague, in which it has lost all legitimacy for its existence and activity. It is a political tool in the service of the most extremist elements working to undermine peace, security and stability in The Middle East“.
He considered them “absurd orders without any authority against the prime minister or the former defense minister.”
On the other hand, Hamas welcomed the ICC’s decision and described it in a statement as “an important historical precedent, and a correction of a long path of historical injustice to our people,” without referring to the arrest warrant issued by the court against him. Muhammad Al-DeifCommander of the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Movement.
