The ICC Seeks Arrest Warrants For Israeli and Hamas Leaders
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🗓️ 21 May 2024
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Summary
The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor on Monday announced plans to seek arrest warrants for the leaders of Hamas and Israel — including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — over their actions during the war in Gaza. Farther east in Iran, the country’s supreme leader looked to project stability after President Ebrahim Raisi and another top official died in a helicopter accident Sunday. Vox foreign affairs reporter Ellen Ioanes explains what’s at stake for both countries amid simmering tensions in the Middle East.
And in headlines: Prosectors in Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial officially rested their case against the former president, voters in Georgia head to the polls to cast ballots in the state’s primary election, and organizers in Nevada say they’ve gathered more than enough signatures to qualify a ballot referendum that would enshrine abortion rights in the state’s constitution.
Correction: This episode previously stated that Rudy Giuliani was set to testify in Trump’s hush money trial. He’s not set to testify — he was arraigned in Arizona Tuesday.
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| 0:00.0 | It is Tuesday, May 21st. |
| 0:03.3 | I'm Josie Duffy Rice. |
| 0:04.6 | And I'm Travel Anderson, and this is what a day, |
| 0:07.9 | where we are questioning Michael Cohen's self-help defense |
| 0:11.9 | for stealing money from the Trump organization. |
| 0:14.6 | I'm not questioning this. |
| 0:16.2 | I love the idea of taking people's money |
| 0:18.8 | and calling itself help. |
| 0:19.8 | That is very up my alley. Trendsetter, game changer, Michael Cohen, giving me ideas. |
| 0:27.0 | On today's show, it's primary day in Georgia, plus the Dolly cargo ship |
| 0:36.7 | finally makes its way out of the Baltimore port. |
| 0:39.5 | But first, on Monday, the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor announced that he was seeking arrest |
| 0:45.0 | warrants for both Israeli and Hamas leaders on charges of crimes against humanity. |
| 0:50.0 | The prosecutor, Kreme Khan, said that he had decided to seek arrest warrants for Hamas leader Yayas-Noir, its military leader Mohammed Dafe, and Hamas's leader in Qatar, Ismail Hania. |
| 1:01.0 | He is also requesting arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu |
| 1:06.1 | and Defence Minister at UAV Galant. I spoke with Alan Iona Onus, a world news reporter from |
| 1:11.5 | Vox. Here's what she said about the charges. |
| 1:14.8 | We do have reason to believe, like, especially because of Hamas's actions in the very |
| 1:19.1 | beginning, like murdering civilians is that is a war crime. |
| 1:22.6 | Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor, |
| 1:24.6 | has said today in these announcements, |
| 1:27.3 | he's especially pointed to starvation tactics |
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