PARIS, November 21, 2024 (WAFA) – Amnesty International Thursday said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is now officially a wanted man.

“Prime Minister Netanyahu is now officially a wanted man,” Amnesty International’s Secretary General Agnès Callamard said in a statement.

She added that “The wheels of international justice have finally caught up with those who are alleged to be responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity” perpetrated, while hailing the arrest warrants as “a historic breakthrough for justice ]that[ must signal the beginning of the end of the persistent and pervasive impunity at the heart of the human rights crisis.”

“ICC member states and the whole international community must stop at nothing until these individuals are brought to trial before the ICC’s independent and impartial judges. There can be no ‘safe haven’ for those alleged to have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity,” Callamard added.

“By issuing these arrest warrants the ICC is also at long last bringing real hope for justice to countless victims of crimes under international law and restoring some faith in the universal value of international legal instruments and justice,” she stressed.

She pointed out that “Holding senior officials accountable for their litany of crimes is a crucial step towards ending continuing violations of rights” in the occupied Palestinian territories, while stressing that this “would help address the continued dispossession and oppression of Palestinians under Israel’s unlawful occupation and system of apartheid.”

She recalled that “the ICC’s arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant unequivocally include charges of war crimes which amount to ‘grave breaches’ of the Geneva Conventions. Every state in the world is under an obligation to bring to justice those alleged to have committed such ‘grave breaches’, no matter the nationality of the perpetrator or the victim.”

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