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00:00 Let's start first with this latest from the International Criminal Court, and the chief
00:03 prosecutor there has asked for arrest warrants, first of all, against the Israeli Prime Minister
00:09 Benjamin Netanyahu for alleged war crimes. Another warrant was issued against the Israeli
00:14 Defense Minister Yoav Galant. The ICC prosecutor also asking for arrest warrants for three
00:20 Hamas leaders for their alleged roles in the October 7th attacks in Israel.
00:27 On the basis of evidence collected and examined and analyzed by my office, I have reasonable
00:34 grounds to believe that three senior leaders of Hamas, Yahya Sinwa, Mohammed Da'if, and
00:43 Ismail Haniyeh, bear criminal responsibility for the following international crimes committed
00:51 on the territory of Israel and the state of Palestine from at least the 7th of October,
00:58 2023.
00:59 Well, we're going to get more reaction now from Iris Mackler, who is live in Jerusalem
01:04 for us. Iris, we just heard what Karim Khan, the ICC prosecutor, had to say about the Hamas
01:08 leaders. What did he have to say about Israeli leaders?
01:12 He said that he was also going to seek arrest warrants against the Prime Minister and the
01:16 Defense Minister for crimes including using starvation as a weapon of war, attacking civilians
01:25 during warfare, and other crimes against humanity. If he does succeed, it now goes to an ICC
01:33 panel of judges. If they do charge the two Israeli leaders, it will be the first time
01:38 that an ally of the United States has been charged in this way, a close ally of the United
01:45 States. It's important to say that neither the US nor Israel are members of the ICC,
01:50 but that Karim Khan says that the ICC has jurisdiction because the Palestinians have
01:55 given him leave to investigate what happens in East Jerusalem, what happens in the West
02:00 Bank, and what happens in Gaza. And that occurred back in 2015. So that's what the state of
02:05 play is at the moment. And we don't yet know if it will happen, but it would be huge if