{"id":5978,"date":"2024-05-20T15:55:29","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T14:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/?p=5978"},"modified":"2024-05-20T18:27:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T17:27:00","slug":"cairns-welcomes-decision-by-icc-to-seek-arrest-warrants-for-top-israeli-and-hamas-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/cairns-welcomes-decision-by-icc-to-seek-arrest-warrants-for-top-israeli-and-hamas-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Cairns welcomes decision by ICC to seek arrest warrants for top Israeli and Hamas leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns has welcomed the decision by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to seek arrest warrants for top Israeli and Hamas leadership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCharges against Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel\u2019s Defence Minister Yoav Gallant include causing extermination, causing starvation as a method of war &#8211; including the denial of humanitarian relief supplies \u2013 and deliberately targeting civilians in conflict.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is hugely significant that the ICC has recognised that crimes against humanity are being committed on a systematic and widespread scale against the Palestinian civilian population \u2013 and that this is explicit Israeli state policy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a particularly strong statement from ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan, he said that Israel has intentionally and systemically deprived the civilian population in all parts of Gaza of objects indispensable to human survival.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt a time when so many countries who profess to care about international law and human rights are turning a blind eye to Gaza, today\u2019s decision by the ICC should serve as a wake-up call and mark a turning point in this brutal conflict.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Social Democrats are again calling on the Irish Government to match their words of condemnation with action. This should involve cutting diplomatic and economic ties with Israel, including passing the Occupied Territories Bill and the Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is also welcome and appropriate that warrants have been sought for the arrest of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and two other top Hamas leaders \u2014 Mohammed Deif and Ismail Haniyeh \u2013 for their role in organising the October 7 attack, with charges to include \u2018extermination, murder, taking of hostages, rape and sexual assault in detention\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHundreds of Israeli civilians were killed or taken hostage by Hamas and other armed groups. 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