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November 25, 2024 | 09:01 pm
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Supreme Leader of Iran, who backs Hamas and Hezbollah militants fighting Israel in Gaza and Lebanon, said on Monday, November 25, 2024, that the death sentence should be issued for Israeli leaders, not arrest warrants.
Quoted by Reuters, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei commented on the International Criminal Court (ICC) decision to issue arrest warrants on Thursday for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defense chief, and a Hamas leader, Ibrahim Al-Masri.
"They issued an arrest warrant, that's not enough... Death sentence must be issued for these criminal leaders," Khamenei said in a meeting with members of Iran's Basij volunteer force on Monday during Basij Week.
ICC based in The Hague has issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and his ousted war minister, Yoav Gallant, for war crimes they committed in connection with the ongoing Gaza genocide.
Now, they face arrest if they set foot in any of the 124 countries that have signed the Rome Statute establishing the ICC.
Referring to the Israeli aggression in Gaza and Lebanon, Iran's Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution said the bombing of houses is not a victory but a crime.
ICC judges found reasonable grounds to believe that Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant were criminally responsible for acts including murder, persecution, and starvation as a weapon of war as part of a "widespread and systematic attack against the civilian population of Gaza."
The decision was met with outrage in Israel, which called it shameful and absurd. Gaza residents expressed hope it would help end the violence and bring those responsible for war crimes to justice.
Israel has rejected the jurisdiction of the Hague-based court and denies war crimes in Gaza.
The warrant for a Hamas leader, Ibrahim Al-Masri, lists charges of mass killings during the October 7, 2023, attacks on Israel that triggered the war on the long-blockaded Palestinian enclave and also charges of rape and the taking of hostages.
Israel has said it killed Masri, also known as Mohammed Deif, in an airstrike in July, but Hamas has neither confirmed nor denied this.
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