ICC: Anticipated Arrest Warrant Requests in Palestine Case to be Kept Secret
On April 24, 2025, the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) delivered its ruling regarding the appeal submitted by the State of Israel against the decision made by Pre-Trial Chamber I concerning Israel’s challenge to the Court’s jurisdiction. The Pre-Trial Chamber’s rejection of Israel’s jurisdictional challenge effectively barred the Hebrew State from pursuing further appeals or efforts to invalidate or suspend the arrest warrants issued for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallant.
“The State of Israel’s request for suspensive effect of two arrest warrants issued by Pre-Trial Chamber I and ‘any other purported exercise of jurisdiction by the Court” is dismissed as moot, wrote the court on page 3 of the judgement
Furthermore, it has been reported that the ICC has placed limitations on its chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, in light of allegations that he is pursuing further arrest warrants for Israeli officials in response to the ongoing aggressive actions against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip. The recent directive was issued as Khan is organising a new set of applications concerning Israeli individuals implicated in purported war crimes and crimes against humanity within the occupied Palestinian territories. ICC officials anticipate that the forthcoming series of warrants will predominantly address offenses occurring in the West Bank, particularly those concerning the escalating violence perpetrated by settlers and questionable military operations conducted by the IDF.
In their confidential not to say secretive directive regarding the Palestine case, the judges have prohibited the chief prosecutor Khan from releasing any public mention of the submission of applications for arrest warrants and have instructed him to withhold any information about upcoming requests unless he obtains their consent. PRESS TV has the story…
IMAGE: International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan (Source: Valentyn Ogirenko/ Reuters)
PRESS TV reports….
ICC bars chief prosecutor from disclosing Israeli arrest warrants: Report
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has reportedly imposed restrictions on its chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, amid reports that he is seeking additional arrest warrants against Israeli officials over the occupying regime’s unbridled onslaught against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip.
British newspaper The Guardian said in a report on Monday that Khan “has been restrained from publicising any new applications for arrest warrants in the court’s Palestine case after judges ordered they must be kept secret.”
Citing sources within the court, the paper said the order was “issued behind closed doors this month,” and Khan “can no longer make public announcements referring to the existence of his applications for arrest warrants or his intention to seek them.”
The ICC prosecutor recently submitted or is due to submit new warrant requests, at least one of which has either been approved or is close to approval, according to The Guardian.
“The new order comes as Khan is preparing a fresh round of applications for Israeli suspects in connection with alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in the occupied Palestinian territories,” the paper said.
The identity of the warrant’s target is being kept confidential, reflecting a growing rift between Khan and ICC judges over his approach, particularly his public announcements regarding sensitive investigations. The judges claim that Khan’s approach, in which he publicly announces his decision to seek warrants, is detached from routine practice and places pressure on the judges considering the applications.
Khan has already secured arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Minister of military affairs, Yoav Gallant, over their genocidal crimes in Gaza. The ruling, issued last November, obliged all the 125 countries that signed the Rome Statute establishing the ICC to detain and surrender the pair to the Hague-based court.
In a press release on Thursday, the Appeals Chamber of the ICC announced that it had rejected Israel’s request to cancel or suspend the arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant over their crimes against humanity and war crimes related to Israel’s ongoing genocide against Gazans.
“Investigations indicate that Netanyahu and Gallant oversaw attacks targeting the civilian population and used starvation as a method of warfare,” the ICC emphasised.
Israel unleashed its genocidal war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, after the Hamas resistance group carried out its historic operation against the occupying entity in retaliation for the regime’s intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.
The Tel Aviv regime has so far killed at least 52,314 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 117,792 others, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
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