The ICC's case against Israel and Hamas explained | The Big Picture S4E10

Will Benjamin Netanyahu face justice at the Hague?
The International Criminal Court on Monday issued arrest warrants for both Israeli and Hamas leaders over their actions in Gaza and on 7 October, accusing them both of committing war crimes.
It’s an unprecedented move, the first time a US-ally has been pursued by the ICC.
Prosecutor Karim Khan says that the reputation of international law itself hangs in the balance, and that the decision must be respected in order to prove that “human beings wherever they may be have equal value”.
But it’s complicated. Both Israel and the US have vowed to fight it, and there’s a history of ICC member states refusing to hand over their allies to the court.
This week on The Big Picture, we examine what the ICC case is, and what it will take to bring the war in Gaza to an end.
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[@TheBasilu]

ICC did not issue arrest warrants. The Prosecutor has applied for the warrants. We all want the warrants to be issued but please wait until the warrants are actually issued

[@csharpe5787]

Countries who are signed up or obliged to issue the warrants. Pretty much a Forgue conclusion.

[@jheartu7036]

🙏

[@haniffrasheed-np6rz]

A criminal is a criminal no matter what position they hold

[@petrifiedsue5283]

​​@@Vladtheimpaler82what does religion have to do with being a criminal? This one currently committing crimes against humanity is not Muslim. Some of the worst atrocities in human history were perpetuated by religious men across the world. Crime knows no color or religion. Keep your BS to yourself

[@user-en6lm9li6b]

​@@Vladtheimpaler82how???

[@user-ti2kb8ho4z]

Yes, my dear brothers, my beloved Palestine is the cradle of Christianity and Judaism, and it contains Al-Aqsa, the third holiest place for us Muslims in Palestine. Bethlehem, the cradle of Christ, is a blessed land, and it is the holy land, and it has been our land for tens of thousands of years, and it is the land of the Canaanite Arabs, the original Palestinian people, and they have lived in it since the Islamic conquest in the era. The Umayyad, Abbasid and Ottoman Arabs, Muslims, Christians and Jews are like brothers and neighbors under Palestinian rule to the owners of the land, but the Zionists came and the British occupation brought them to our land as compensation to the Jews for what they did to them Hitler. The question here is that who did the Holocaust, the Germans, why do I, the Palestinian Arab, pay the price? Why not Germany? Why do I, the Muslim, pay the price for crimes? Committed by the Germans and Nazi Europe, fascism is the root of all evil in the world. Our problem is the occupation💚❤️🇵🇸☝️🇵🇸

[@GoyimAreNotSlaves]

Your Profile Pic is so hilarious Never think that Jesus is unaware of the wrongdoers he only delays their judgement until the Day, their eyes will gaze in horror, rushing their heads forward, unable to blink and their hearts void.

[@Cromwell648]

The history started on 14 May 1948, NOT October 7th 2023 When the UK and US signed the Balfour Declaration. Which resulted in the Partition of Palestine.....

[@naymatunc-rc6vs]

The history didnt started on 7 oktober Self Defense is not terrorisme

[@johnsmith1474]

Palestine is a member of the ICC, it has agreed to abide by the law, and murder of civilians and kidnapping are not legal in war in this case. Can't you realize your bias? It's glaring.

[@mdumairmdumair5183]

Free Palestine 🇮🇳 🤝 🇵🇸

[@johnsmith1474]

How thoughtful.

[@user-en6lm9li6b]

​@@johnsmith1474🇵🇸

[@bernadettefedgar9253]

He should be at the hague he is a war crimial 🇮🇪

[@sedgyd]

Netanyahu will not visit a country that will likely arrest him……if a warrant is issued……so he will likely holiday in Miami🤣🤣

[@lailamorwat-oq9kf]

Free free Palestine 🇵🇸

[@g.p616]

But NOBODY in his office has the BALLS to arrest them! Fool!😂😂😂

[@faywarnock2311]

All I see in the eyes of the three Hamas leaders is pain of oppression and resiliency- I don’t see the vengeance psychopathic intentions of cruelty, sadism and lies so plainly on display by Netanyahu. What is separating /tearing apart the very fabric of humanity is what Netanyahu and his gang of thugs is trying to do. The ICC and humanity take responsibility to stop this carnage by fully understanding the gravity of what a political military state governed and populated by psychopaths and orchestrated by neoliberalism can do. Open your eyes Khan

[@omiid8393]

Love from Iran to #FreePalestine 🇮🇷❤️🇵🇸 I'm so proud I voted for our beloved president Raisi. He was very popular 🇵🇸🖤🇮🇷😢

[@habib92]

Why the Hamas leader? It shows the weakness of the Icc leadership.

[@johnsmith1474]

Are you so poorly educated that you cannot identify murder? Presuming you defend Hamas as justifiably at war with Zionist, they are still outside the bounds of their own membership in the ICC ie in war you cannot simply roll in and murder & kidnap. You are infinitely biased, stay away from kids with that mind of yours.

[@Adowrath]

Why not? Just because what Netanyahu does is wrong doesn't mean what Hamas is doing is right. (or the other way around)

[@stevenwiswell4308]

The weakness of the ICC is that America, which is always right, is very often on the wrong side. We know that the Israelis according to Joseph ben Mathias (Josephus) had killed all of the Jebusites in their capitol city of Jerusalem! Those Jews who died in Germany in WW2 less than a decade later re-established Israel which had not existed for about 2000 years. We, as civillization, cannot keep invoking the holocaust especially since the Jews had previously comitted this shocking crime themselves several times and appear to have created the circumstances to do it again.

[@SarahtheSoldier]

@@Adowrath It is because of what Netanyahu has been doing that H are compelled to retaliate. They wouldn't exist if their occupier didn't exist.

[@Adowrath]

@@SarahtheSoldier I agree that without Netanyahu('s Party), Hamas would probably no longer exist. That does not excuse the specific actions that occurred though. To understand where violence comes from is not the same as excusing it.

[@russelldavis8415]

Assuming the warrants are issued, WHO is going to make the arrest??? all he has to do is stay in his own country, no one will be able to make that arrest. MEANWHILE, are the Hamas leadership facing similar charges, and will warrants be issued for them for similar charges?????

[@Cromwell648]

No.

[@user-pn6iz8yc1l]

Netanyahu should go take some vacations at Venezuela Cuba Nicaragua o Colombia Brasil, S. Africa, Iraq N. Korea. China, Spain, Ireland he needs to relax has done way to much bad

[@SarahtheSoldier]

76 years late.

[@thruknobulaxii2020]

A glorious development, whatever else.

[@stevenwiswell4308]

The question should be : Will Netanyahu go to hell?

[@yeryuzusessizgokyuzumavi9299]

Ya şafi ya Rahman ya rahim ya selam ya hannanü ya mennanü ya bedias semavati vel erdi ya zel celali vel ikram

[@pexonifikacija]

💪🏻

[@a.ngaming2661]

😊👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@abedasadien9315]

Did he do his research

[@alanhat5252]

Yes he did.

[@az-rule84]

Of course he did. He is a professional lawyer.

[@GarryKazparog]

IDF or even US authorities will arrest ICC if they enter ISRAEL or US territory..... ❤❤❤😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤

[@Violett8]

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

[@Xellius13]

Short and plain answer - NO. No matter how many angry comments mom’s sofa warriors will fart.

[@majl7917]

Karim Khan only did this due to enormous pressure. He's still a horrible person.

[@pakjunge]

And what about u

[@diannafeliciano5208]

They have no jurisdiction over Israel.

[@faywarnock2311]

Yes the ICC definitely has jurisdiction over Israel! This is by virtue of the fact the occupying entity is committing war crimes and crimes against humanity on Palestinian soil -Palestine is a constituent of the ICC.

[@zafarvlogs4030]

He will go to Hell

[@pakjunge]

Don't Play like the God please. Ist Not aloud to say Words like this.

[@ericjayfederizo3549]

No matter how desperate these guys. Truth will always prevail in the end. Stay strong Israel 🇮🇱

[@MoungMoung-gq7se]

Children are starving in Gaza You are talking about human rights Innocent children are still being killed in Gaza You are still a pretend human rights activist There is no one in the world as cruel as you, but you still speak like a gentleman Your countrymen are protesting against injustice. You have hidden the principle of injustice Don't portray it as hate They don't like what you're doing, not just them, but every human being in the world

[@Medjugoriemiss]

You can’t talk fir everyone in the world.

[@user-ij7rb2wu9o]

No one can harm Bibi

[@Theunspokentruth77]

There's no such thing as Palestine according to all knowing alllah for which so much screaming. Lol

[@Jesuslightshines]

God Bless Israel and I pray for the peace of Jerusalem and all the Jewish people make their enemies be for them and not against them 🙏🏻✡️🇮🇱🕊️♥️

[@Asad-2166]

ZIONIST Christians are not Christian!!!!

[@PauloAdriano-zo2ng]

Okay, that's nice. Don't forget to include false friends, such as the evangelical preacher, John Hagee. His Red Heifers have already arrived in Judea and Samaria, from Texas. 🐮🐮🐮🐮🐮🐮🐮🐮🐮🐮🐮🐮

[@alanhat5252]

Seek medical help with your mental health problems.

[@csharpe5787]

If Israel were at all interested in justice, it wouldn’t be doing what it is. It is sacrificing its own future on a fools errand.

[@JohnSmith-xl8cb]

07-10-2023

[@Kittyparcel]

Yeah when a nation finaly fought back after 76 years of atrocities being caused against them 07-10-2023💯

[@NicoleReign]

Damn your knowledge only goes that far…? You a new kid on the block 😂