Benjamin Netanyahu Denies Starving Gazans Amid Near-Famine Conditions
Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday denied the allegation from an International Criminal Court prosecutor that he was starving Palestinians in Gaza as a method of war, arguing the ICC arrest warrant was based on “a pack of lies.”
On CNN, Netanyahu labeled ICC prosecutor Karim Khan a “rogue prosecutor” putting forth “false charges” after he had applied for arrests for the Israeli prime minister and Israel’s defense minister, Yoav Gallant, as well as three leaders of Hamas. Khan accused the Israeli pair of “causing extermination, causing starvation as a method of war, including the denial of humanitarian relief supplies, [and] deliberately targeting civilians in conflict.”
Netanyahu also compared the notion of his arrest to how it would have looked if President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had been arrested for leading the allied war effort in the 1930s and 1940s.