'Death Sentence For Criminal Leaders': Khamenei On ICC Arrest Warrant Against Netanyahu, Gallant

Tehran, Iran: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme leader, on Monday said that Israeli leaders should not be treated with arrest warrants but death sentences. “They issued an arrest warrant, that’s not enough… Death sentence must be issued for these criminal leaders”, said Khamenei, referring to the Israeli leaders.

As per Tasnim news agency, Khamenei made the comment while speaking to the Basij paramilitary force, a division within the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. He vowed that “the enemy [Israel] will not win in Gaza and Lebanon”.

“Bombing people’s houses in Gaza and Lebanon is not a victory…The fools should not think that just because they bomb people’s homes, hospitals and communities, they have won. No, nobody considers this a victory”, he added.

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He also said that what Netanyahu did was a war crime and deserve death sentence. “What the Zionists did was a war crime…They have issued an arrest warrant, this isn’t enough — a death sentence must be issued for Netanyahu. A death sentence should be issued for these criminal leaders”.

The International Court of Criminal has issued an arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant, and Hamas Muhammed Deif for war crimes committed in relation with current Hamas-Israel war. The arrest warrant has put Netanyahu and Gallant, the former Defence Minister of Israel, at the risk arrest if they travel abroad.

In its unanimous decision, the three-judge panel said, “The chamber considered that there are reasonable grounds to believe that both individuals intentionally and knowingly deprived the civilian population in Gaza of objects indispensable to their survival, including food, water, and medicine and medical supplies, as well as fuel and electricity”.

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Israel rejected the ruling, and denied committing war crimes in Gaza. The ICC said that Israel’s acceptance of the court’s jurisdiction was not required.