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“No one has a license to commit war crimes or crimes against humanity.“, said the prosecutor of CPI, Karim Khanwho recently called for arrest warrants to be issued against the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahuand against leaders of Hamas.
The request, made on Monday, before the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza strip is at Israelearned Khan a barrage of criticism.
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The President of the United States, Joe Bidenconsidered “scandalous” the request and stated that Israel and the Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas “they are not comparable”.
“Our job is not to make friends“, said Khan in an interview published this Sunday by the British newspaper Sunday Times.
“We must highlight the similar value of every child, every woman, every civilian in an increasingly polarized world“, I argue.
“We can’t have double standards“, he stressed, adding that”the world watches the situation” and that the countries of Latin America, Africa It is Asia They will draw their conclusions about the capacity of global institutions to uphold international law.
“Are powerful states sincere when they say that there is a set of laws, or that this rules-based system makes no sense, is a mere tool of NATO and of a post-colonial world, without any real intention of applying the law equally?Khan asked.
The prosecutor, 54 years old and of British nationality, denies any similarity between Israel and Hamas.
“I’m not saying that Israel, with its democracy and its supreme court, is similar to Hamas, of course not.” he claimed.
“Israel has every right to protect its population and recover hostages”Captured by Hamas. “But no one has a license to commit war crimes or crimes against humanity“He explained.
Khan described a series of situations in the Gaza Strip as “the fact that the water was cut off (…), that people queuing for food were attacked, that people from humanitarian agencies were killed”.
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The war broke out in October 7thwhen Islamic commandos killed more than 1,170 people, mostly civilians, in southern Israel, according to an AFP report based on official Israeli data.
The militants also kidnapped 252 people. Israel says 121 remain kidnapped in Linkof which 37 were said to have died.
In response, Israel launched an offensive against Gaza, in which 35,984 Palestinians have died so far, most of them civilians, according to the Ministry of Health of the Palestinian territory, governed by Hamas.
Source: Elcomercio
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