Iran’s Khamenei requires death sentence for Israeli leaders

DUBAI – The supreme chief of Iran, which backs the Hamas and Hezbollah militants combating Israel in Gaza and Lebanon, said on Monday that death sentences ought to mute be issued for Israeli leaders, no longer arrest warrants.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei became commenting on a resolution by the Global Prison Court to grief arrest warrants on Thursday for Israeli High Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his aged defence chief and a Hamas chief, Ibrahim Al-Masri.

“They issued an arrest warrant, that’s no longer enough… Death sentence need to be issued for these felony leaders”, Khamenei said, referring to the Israeli leaders.

In their resolution, the ICC judges said there were realistic grounds to believe Netanyahu and Yoav Bold were criminally chargeable for acts collectively with assassinate, persecution and starvation as a weapon of conflict as segment of a “neatly-liked and systematic attack towards the civilian population of Gaza”.

The resolution became met with outrage in Israel, which known because it impolite and absurd. Gaza residents expressed hope it would possibly maybe well abet end the violence and bring those chargeable for conflict crimes to justice.

Israel has rejected the jurisdiction of the Hague-basically basically based court and denies conflict crimes in Gaza.

The warrant for a Hamas chief, Ibrahim Al-Masri, lists costs of mass killings right thru the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on Israel that precipitated the conflict on the lengthy-blockaded Palestinian enclave, and additionally costs of rape and the taking of hostages.

Israel has said it killed Masri, on the total identified as Mohammed Deif, in an airstrike in July but Hamas has neither confirmed nor denied this. REUTERS