Cairns group Indigenous Friends of Israel has called the International Criminal Court’s decision to apply for arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant as “another form of Holocaust denial“, saying that international humanitarian agencies are believing false “Hamas propaganda“.
“This is just another form of Holocaust denial,” said Indigenous Friends of Israel co-founder Barbara Miller.
“The twisted logic, political posturing, and blame the victim response of the International Criminal Court is ridiculous, disgraceful, and anti–Semitic” because she said it disregarded the events in Israel on October 7, 2023.
On Tuesday, ICC prosecutor Karim Khan applied for arrest
warrants against the politicians, as well as Hamas leaders on suspicion of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The prosecutor said he was seeking warrants against Mr Netanyahu and Mr Gallant for crimes including “wilful killing“, “blocking humanitarian aid” extermination and/or murder” and “starvation“.
The ICC also issued arrest warrants for two top Hamas leaders Mohammed Diab
Ibrahim al–Masri, the leader of the Al Qassem Brigades who is better known as Mohammed Deif, and Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas‘ political leader also for “extermination“, “murder” but also “rape“, “torture” and “taking hostages as a war crime“.
“While of course we would like to see no lives lost in war, Israel did not start this war,” Ms Miller said.
“While I understand Indigenous people in Australia
have a connection to holocaust and genocide, its very hard to see the connection between this and the Holocaust,” Maja Amanita, who is involved in Free Palestine FNQ said.
“We say there is a genocide,” she said, suggesting the Albanese government consider “sanctions against Israel“.
“We see pictures of children dying from starvation, premature babies rotting in incubators from hospitals that have been bombed, pictures of child- ren with their brains hanging out, pictures of old men and old women snipered in the street in Gaza and the West Bank. We see all of this as evidence these military actions are going be- yond self defence,” Ms Amani- ta said. “The ICC exists for a reason and I think their processes should be respected – just like we respected the warrant they put out for Vladimir Putin,” she added.
Source: https://www.cairnspost.com.au
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