The appeals uploaded to the ICC website challenge the warrants on several grounds, including a claim the court lacks jurisdiction, and argue “the Pre-Trial Chamber’s findings are erroneous”.
The warrants charge Netanyahu and Gallant with offences related to the war in Gaza, including “the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare”.
The accused strongly deny the charges, which Netanyahu described as “false and absurd”. Israel is not a member of the ICC but Palestine is, and the court ruled that potential offences fell within its jurisdiction.
Palestinians walk among destroyed buildings in Gaza (Omar al-Qataa/AFP/Getty)The UK has said it will honour its obligations to the court but stopped short of confirming it would enforce the warrants against Netanyahu or Gallant if they were on British soil.
The move was announced by the Israeli foreign minister, Gideon Sa’ar, who said it was prompted by the Irish government’s “extreme anti-Israeli policies”.
He added: “Ireland is pro-peace, pro-human rights and pro-international law.
Irish Foreign Minister Micheal Martin said in March that while it was for the world court to decide whether genocide is being committed, he wanted to be clear that Hamas’s 7 October attack on Israel last year and what is happening in Gaza now “represents the blatant violation of international humanitarian law on a mass scale”.
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Read MoreNetanyahu said in the statement: “Strengthening the Golan is strengthening the State of Israel, and it is especially important at this time. We will continue to hold onto it, cause it to blossom, and settle in it.”
Israel has seized more Syrian territory since the fall of the Assad regime, expanding into a “buffer zone” established after the 1967 war.
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