The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant for 'crimes against humanity and war crimes' committed in Gaza since 8 October 2023, calling the ongoing one a 'widespread and systematic attack against the population'.

The main accusations concern the use of hunger and thirst as a tool of war and indiscriminate attacks on the civilian population and health facilities. According to the Court, conditions were created that could be described as persecution of the Palestinian population in Gaza.

This is a historic decision, which will allow international jurists and experts to bring many other Israeli officials and political representatives, as well as those responsible for complicity with the genocide, before the Court.

The impunity granted to Israel by the international community must end. We hope that this is only the first step. As Gaza strips the world bare, we continue to support the Palestinian people and their struggle for survival, freedom, justice and self-determination.

We call on the Italian government to protect the independence of the ICC from the Israeli government's attempt to delegitimise it and to immediately give the Court unconditional cooperation in the implementation of the arrest warrants