In May, prosecutors requested an arrest warrant for him Netanyahu And the Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Galant Plus 3 bosses Hamas movement Saying that there are reasonable grounds indicating that they committed war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The president of the court said that the chief judge in that case, Romanian judge Yulia Mutuc, requested that a replacement be chosen for health reasons, on Friday, and she was immediately replaced by Betty Holler, a Slovenian judge in the court.
This substitution is expected to further delay the issuance of a decision on the issuance of possible arrest warrants in the case dealing with the conflict in Gaza StripThe new judge will need time to study all the case documents.
There are no specific time limits for the court, but it generally took about 3 months to decide on requests for arrest warrants in previous cases.
The decision had already been stalled due to several rounds of legal attempts by Israel challenging the court’s jurisdiction.
