Middle East & Africa | Israel and Hamas in the dock

The ICC’s threat to arrest Binyamin Netanyahu has shocked Israel 

America and Israel have reacted with outrage at the implied equivalence between Israel and Hamas

Binyamin Netanyahu and Yehya Sinwa
Photograph: AFP/AP
|Jerusalem

IT HAD BEEN been expected in Israel for weeks, but was still a shock when it came. On May 20th the prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, announced that he was requesting arrest warrants for Binyamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, Israel’s prime minister and defence minister, as well as the leaders of Hamas, the Islamists who launched the deadly attack on Israel on October 7th last year, on charges of war crimes.

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