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Decision by the International Criminal Court's (ICC) Pre-Trial Chamber I unanimously rejecting the State of Israel's challenges to the court's jurisdiction and issuing arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the context of the War on Gaza. The charges include the use of starvation as a method of warfare, murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts. The decision establishes reasonable grounds to believe these individuals bear individual criminal responsibility for the crimes charged, and marks the first ICC arrest warrant against the sitting leader of a western-backed state. This primary legal source is helpful for researchers and students working on international criminal accountability, the ICC and Israel-Palestine, and the political implications of the arrest warrants. It is valuable for understanding the legal standards applied and the crimes for which Netanyahu and Gallant have been charged.
