US House Passes Bill to Sanction ICC after Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant

The US House of Representatives. (Photo: United States House of Representatives, via Wikimedia Commons)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

The US House of Representatives has voted to authorisation the ICC aft it issued apprehension warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and erstwhile Defense Minister Gallant implicit alleged warfare crimes successful Gaza.

The US House of Representatives voted connected Thursday to authorisation the International Criminal Court (ICC) pursuing its issuance of apprehension warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his erstwhile defence curate Yoav Gallant implicit alleged warfare crimes and crimes against humanity successful Gaza, Reuters quality bureau reported.

The alleged ‘Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act’ passed with an overwhelming 243 to 140 votes successful favor. The enactment imposes sanctions connected immoderate foreigner who investigates, arrests, detains, oregon prosecutes US citizens oregon citizens of allied countries, including Israel, who are not members of the court.  

While nary Republican voted against the bill, 45 Democrats supported it.  

Ritchie Torres volition ballot for sanctions against the ICC due to the fact that they privation to clasp Netanyahu accountable for his crimes. What a fucking joke. pic.twitter.com/HcX2yncasL

— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) January 9, 2025

“America is passing this instrumentality due to the fact that a kangaroo tribunal is seeking to apprehension the premier curate of our large ally, Israel,” said Representative Brian Mast, the Republican president of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, during a code successful the House earlier the vote.  

The autarkic quality outlet Common Dreams quoted Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) arsenic saying connected societal media up of Thursday’s vote: “The ICC’s determination to contented apprehension warrants against the enactment of Israel represents the weaponization of planetary instrumentality astatine its astir egregious.” 

According to AIPAC Tracker, Torres is the apical legislature recipient of run contributions from pro-Israel lobbyists, including the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.  

In November, the ICC issued warrants for the apprehension of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Galant, his erstwhile defence minister, “for crimes against humanity and warfare crimes” successful Gaza.  

Amnesty International USA criticized the House ballot arsenic “deeply disappointing.”  

What’s their apical precedence the archetypal week of the caller Congress? Lowering costs? Addressing the lodging crisis? No, it's sanctioning the International Criminal Court to support genocidal maniac Netanyahu truthful helium tin proceed the genocide successful Gaza.

— Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (@RepRashida) January 9, 2025

“The ICC is portion of a planetary strategy of planetary justness of which the US was a main designer astatine Nuremberg and beyond,” Amnesty said successful a statement. The enactment warned that, “if the Senate follows suit, it volition bash sedate harm to the interests of each victims globally.”  

Palestinian-American lawmaker Rashida Tlaib besides condemned the determination connected societal media, asking: “What’s their apical precedence the archetypal week of the caller Congress? Lowering costs? Addressing the lodging crisis? No, it’s sanctioning the International Criminal Court to support genocidal maniac Netanyahu truthful helium tin proceed the genocide successful Gaza.”  

Ongoing Genocide

The ongoing Israeli battle connected the Gaza Strip, which began connected October 7, 2023, has led to a humanitarian situation of unprecedented scale. As the decease toll among besieged and starved Palestinian civilians continues to emergence daily, Israel is presently facing charges of genocide against Palestinians earlier the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, astatine slightest 46,006 Palestinians person been killed, and 109,378 wounded successful Israel’s ongoing genocide successful Gaza starting connected October 7, 2023.

The toll is expected to emergence further, with astatine slightest 11,000 radical inactive unaccounted for, presumed dormant nether the rubble of their homes crossed Gaza.

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The war, which Palestinians telephone “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood,” began aft a subject cognition carried retired by Hamas connected Israeli territory. Israel reports that 1,139 of its soldiers and civilians were killed during the archetypal onslaught connected October 7. However, Israeli media person raised concerns that a important fig of Israeli casualties were caused by ‘friendly fire’ during the assault.

Human rights organizations, some Palestinian and international, person reported that the overwhelming bulk of the casualties successful Gaza are women and children. The ongoing unit has besides exacerbated an acute famine, with thousands of children among the dead, highlighting the severity of the humanitarian disaster.

The warfare has displaced astir 2 cardinal radical from their homes crossed Gaza, with the bulk of the displaced forced into the already overcrowded confederate portion of the Strip. The colonisation successful Gaza remains trapped successful the ongoing conflict, with small entree to basal necessities specified arsenic food, water, and aesculapian care.

(The Palestine Chronicle)