YnetNews.com reports: “The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant for alleged war crimes committed during the ongoing Gaza war, the court said in a statement Thursday.

The warrants were issued after the ICC’s pre-trial chamber unanimously rejected Israel’s challenges to the court’s jurisdiction and its request to halt proceedings with the prosecution’s applications for arrest warrants submitted earlier this year

The tribunal claimed there are ‘reasonable grounds to believe’ that Netanyahu and Gallant bear criminal responsibility for crimes including ‘the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare’ and ‘crimes against humanity, including murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts’ targeting Gaza’s civilian population.

The ICC accused the two leaders of deliberately depriving Gaza’s civilian population of essential goods, including food, water, electricity and medical supplies, resulting in significant suffering. According to the court, these actions were part of a ‘widespread and systematic attack’ against civilians in Gaza and were carried out in violation of international humanitarian law…”