Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) has called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to issue arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials after Israel’s military seized control of the Rafah crossing on Tuesday.
Tlaib, the only Palestinian American in Congress, said with the ongoing incursion into the southern city of Rafah, there is “nowhere” safe for Palestinians in Gaza, and argued that Netanyahu will remain in his post as long as the conflict continues.
“I urge the ICC to swiftly issue arrest warrants for Netanyahu and senior Israeli officials to finally hold them accountable for this genocide, as is obviously warranted by these well-documented violations of the Genocide Convention under international law,” Tlaib said in a statement Tuesday.
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The court has reportedly considered warrants for Netanyahu and other members of his Cabinet. The court was allegedly considering arrest warrants for weeks over increasing accusations of war crimes being committed in the Israel-Hamas war.
In response, some Republicans in the Senate have threatened to impose sanctions on the ICC if it moved forward with the arrest warrants. Lawmakers said the U.S. could fall back on the American Service-Members’ Protection Act, a 2002 law that shields the country from cooperating with the court.
The U.S. and Israel are not members of the ICC. Palestinian territories were given membership in 2015.
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Rep. Rashida Tlaib has called on the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials after Israel’s military seized control of the Rafah Crossing. https://t.co/hfWhrFJrFe
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