国际刑事法院对内塔尼亚胡和加兰特发出逮捕令

位于荷兰海牙的国际刑事法院(ICC)第一预审分庭11月21日一致决定,对以色列总理内塔尼亚胡(Benjamin Netanyahu)与时任国防部长加兰特(Yoav Gallant)发出逮捕令,同时驳回以色列对法院管辖权提出的挑战。
分庭审理的是以色列于2024年9月26日依《罗马规约》第18条与第19条提交的两项请求。分庭裁定,法院可基于巴勒斯坦的领土管辖权行使管辖权,无需以色列接受。逮捕令涵盖至少2023年10月8日至至少2024年5月20日(检方提交申请之日)期间实施的危害人类罪与战争罪。
分庭认为,有合理理由相信,内塔尼亚胡与加兰特作为共同实施者,须对以战争方法实施饥饿的战争罪,以及谋杀、迫害与其他不人道行为等危害人类罪承担刑事责任;两人作为文职上级,还须对故意指挥攻击平民人口的战争罪承担责任。分庭指出,两人有意并明知地剥夺加沙平民赖以生存的必需品,包括食物、水、药品、燃料与电力;由此造成的生存条件已导致平民死亡,包括儿童死于营养不良与脱水,并迫使医生在没有麻醉的条件下为伤者手术、甚至为儿童截肢。
逮捕令本身列为秘密,以保护证人与调查;分庭表示,之所以公布上述内容,是因为逮捕令所涉的类似行为似乎仍在持续,且让受害者及其家属知悉逮捕令的存在符合其利益。同日,法院还对哈马斯军事领导人穆罕默德·戴夫(Mohammed Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri,通称 Deif)发出逮捕令,指控其犯有谋杀、灭绝、酷刑与劫持人质等危害人类罪与战争罪。(来源:国际刑事法院)
International Criminal Court Issues Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant
Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC), based in The Hague, Netherlands, unanimously issued warrants of arrest on November 21 for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant, while rejecting Israel's challenges to the Court's jurisdiction.
The Chamber ruled on two requests Israel had submitted on September 26, 2024, under articles 18 and 19 of the Rome Statute, and found that Israel's acceptance of the Court's jurisdiction was not required, since the Court can exercise jurisdiction on the basis of Palestine's territorial jurisdiction. The warrants cover crimes against humanity and war crimes committed from at least October 8, 2023 until at least May 20, 2024, the day the Prosecution filed its applications.
The Chamber found reasonable grounds to believe that Netanyahu and Gallant each bear criminal responsibility, as co-perpetrators, for the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution and other inhumane acts, and, as civilian superiors, for the war crime of intentionally directing an attack against the civilian population. It said the two had intentionally and knowingly deprived Gaza's civilian population of objects indispensable to survival, including food, water, medicine, fuel and electricity, and that the resulting conditions had caused civilian deaths, including children dying of malnutrition and dehydration, and had forced doctors to operate and carry out amputations, including on children, without anaesthetics.
The warrants are classified as secret in order to protect witnesses and safeguard the investigations; the Chamber said it released the information because conduct similar to that addressed in the warrants appeared to be ongoing, and because it was in the interest of victims and their families to know of the warrants. On the same day, the Court also issued a warrant of arrest for Mohammed Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri, known as Deif, the Hamas military commander, over crimes against humanity and war crimes including murder, extermination, torture and hostage-taking. (Source: International Criminal Court)
来源:国际刑事法院
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