This is Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org.

We're broadcasting from Baku, Azerbaijan, from the UN Climate Summit.

But we're talking about breaking news.

I'm Amy Goodman with Nirmin Sheik.

The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for the Israeli Prime Minister

Benjamin Netanyahu

and former defense minister Yoav Galant for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed

during Israel's assault on Gaza.

In a statement, the ICC said the Israeli leaders had quote, intentionally and knowingly

deprive the civilian population in Gaza of objects indispensable

to their survival, including food, water, and medicine and medical supplies, as well as fuel

and electricity. The ICC also issued an arrest warrant for the Hamas military commander

Mohammed Diff, though Israel's military claims it killed him in a July

air strike. We go right now to Raji Sarani, the award-winning human rights lawyer, founder and

director of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights in Gaza. He has lived in Gaza for decades, for all of his life.

He fled Gaza after Israel bombed his home.

He joins us now from Cairo Egypt.

Raji, it's an honor to have you with us.

If you could start off by responding to these enormous developments out of the

international criminal court.

Thank you, Amy. This is a great day, great day for justice and dignity of man. It's a great day for the rule of law.

And this day makes us remember all these souls of children, women, civilians, all the destruction, or the starvation and displacement

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