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War crimes court issues warrants for Netanyahu and former Israeli defense minister

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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The world's top war crimes court issued warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. The court said they committed crimes against humanity for intentionally depriving Gazans of food and directing attacks against civilians. Israel called it an anti-semitic attack on democracies trying to defend themselves from terrorism. Nick Schifrin reports. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Today, the world's top war crimes court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister

0:06.6

Netanyahu and former defense minister Joav Galant for what the court called crimes against

0:12.7

humanity for intentionally depriving grazins of food and directing attacks against civilians.

0:19.0

Israel today called it an anti-Semitic attack on democracies

0:22.1

trying to defend themselves from terrorism. Here's Nick Schiffran with more.

0:26.4

In the moonscape that is now northern Gaza, in the desperation of Gaza's civilians.

0:36.4

Lacking the basic necessities of life are what the International Criminal Court today called

0:40.7

Israeli crimes against humanity for having, quote, intentionally and knowingly deprived the civilian

0:46.5

population in Gaza of objects indispensable to their survival, including food, water, and

0:52.5

medicine, and quote, intentionally directing attacks

0:55.4

against the civilian population of Gaza, as ICC prosecutor Karim Khan argued on the news

1:01.1

hour in September.

1:02.7

Even war has rules.

1:05.5

And yet we're seeing baby after baby, destroyed.

1:11.6

People in Gaza who want to have food and water, who want to stop waking up in terror as bombs

1:17.6

land and the earth shakes and no place is safe, it seems, including schools.

1:22.6

Today, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Khan a corrupt prosecutor and the ICC judges biased.

1:31.0

This is an anti-Semitic act that has one goal to deter me, to deter us, from exercising our

1:37.6

natural right to defend ourselves against our enemies, who rise up against us to destroy us,

1:43.4

accusing the state of Israel of genocide, while

1:46.0

we are working to defend ourselves from an enemy who is trying to commit genocide against us.

1:51.7

The ICC accuses Netanyahu and Galant of, quote, starvation as a method of warfare and impeding

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