🧵: EXCLUSIVE: Arrest warrant applications for Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on charges of apartheid are ready and in the hands of two deputy prosecutors at the ICC, Middle East Eye can reveal ⤵️
If the warrants are issued, it will be the first time that the crime of apartheid is charged at an international court
ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan had prepared cases against Ben Gvir and Smotrich before he went on leave in May, according to numerous sources in the court with knowledge of the matter
- Israeli attacks killed at least 32 people including 13 seeking aid
- Over 100 humanitarian groups accused Israel of blocking critical aid
- Israel set to approve new settlements in West Bank
Fadwa Barghouti, the wife of jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti, has responded to a rare video showing her husband in detention, saying the footage laid bare the toll and absue of his decades in Israeli custody middleeasteye.net/live/live-54-p…
- Gaza hospitals recorded 15 deaths from starvation in 24 hours
- Israeli strikes killed 72 Palestinians in the past day
- US withdraws from Unesco because Palestine is a member state
Israeli settlers have set up a new outpost northwest of Ramallah, in a further escalation of land grabs across the occupied West Bank middleeasteye.net/live/israel-ki…
"Israel's starvation of Gaza is a cruel display of the impunity of power"
- Donald Trump says US has struck Iranian nuclear sites
- Israel targeted Iran’s Arak heavy water reactor, claiming it was part of Tehran’s weapons programme
US B-2 bombers were involved in the strikes on Iran's nuclear sites which Donald Trump announced moments ago middleeasteye.net/live/israel-ta…
🔴 UPDATE
Donald Trump has announced that he will make an address from the White House at 10pm local time about "our very successful military operation in Iran" middleeasteye.net/live/israel-ta…