Jul 24. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday criticized the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the International Criminal Court (ICC) for their decisions regarding the Israeli offensive against the Gaza Strip during a speech to the US Congress.
Netanyahu told US lawmakers in Washington that the ICJ decision — which called on Israel to guarantee the entry of aid into the Gaza Strip — was “absolute and complete nonsense,” and that it was a “fabrication.”
“This is a complete lie. Israel has allowed more than 40,000 trucks to enter Gaza. That’s half a million tons of food and that’s more than 3,000 calories for every man, woman and child in Gaza,” he said.
In this regard, Netanyahu has indicated that if there are Palestinians in the enclave who do not have enough food, it is not because Israel is blocking their entry, but because the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) “is stealing it.”
Regarding the Palestinian militia, he stressed that “they do everything in their power to endanger Palestinian civilians.” “They fire rockets from schools, hospitals, mosques. They even shoot at their own people when they try to leave the war zone,” he said.
“So much for that lie, but here’s another. The ICC prosecutor accuses Israel of deliberately targeting civilians. What the hell is he talking about? The Israeli army has dropped millions of leaflets, sent millions of text messages and made hundreds of thousands of calls to get Palestinian civilians out of danger,” he added.
Netanyahu said that just as lies have been spread against the Jewish people “for centuries,” the same is now happening to the Jewish state. “The outrageous slanders that portray Israel as racist and genocidal are aimed at delegitimizing Israel and demonizing the Jewish people,” he added.
The Israeli Prime Minister recalled that the population is “witnessing a shocking rise in anti-Semitism in the United States and around the world.” “Wherever we see the scourge of anti-Semitism, we must condemn it unequivocally and fight it,” he concluded.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor’s office requested in May that arrest warrants be issued for Netanyahu, his Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and several senior Hamas officials on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the wake of the group’s October 7 attacks and subsequent offensive against the Gaza Strip.
The ICJ ordered Israel to immediately halt its military offensive on the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah and urged the Israeli government to allow unrestricted entry into the Strip to any commission the United Nations decides to establish to investigate a possible genocide in the Palestinian enclave.
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