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 Sheikh. 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

deprived 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

airstrike. 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 displacements

doesn't suffer for the last 13 months in this ongoing genocide, which broadcasted live on

air at the real time to the whole world and cost

us so far 44,000 has been killed more than 70% of them are civilians and not only that but 140,000 has been injured, one third of them will die because

there is no access for medical equipment or medicine or even food. So it's a great day to have these

genociders finally with a restaurant and wanted for justice at the most important court on earth.

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