Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Poll: Majority in Europe Back ICC Warrant Against Netanyahu

LONDON (KI) – A majority in the UK, Italy and Spain support the International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant application against Zionist prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, alongside a plurality in several other European countries and the U.S., according to a new poll.
ICC prosecutor Karim Khan announced in May that he was applying for arrest warrants for Netanyahu and his war minister, Yoav Gallant.
On Monday, YouGov published a poll in which it asked the public in several countries if it supported the arrest warrants for each Zionist regime chief named by Khan.
A majority of 57 percent in Italy and Spain, and 54 percent in the UK, said they supported the arrest warrant targeting Netanyahu. No higher than 15 percent in those countries said they did not support it.
A plurality in France, Sweden, Denmark, Germany and the U.S. also said that they backed the arrest warrant.
Respondents were also asked how likely it was that the Zionist regime had committed war crimes during the course of the conflict.
Majorities in all those countries, ranging from 63 to 74 percent, said the regime had likely committed war crimes, except in the U.S. where 49 percent said it likely had, almost double the 26 percent in the U.S. who did not think it had. 
Nearly 40,000 Palestinians have been killed in the regime’s war on Gaza, the majority of them women and children. A Lancet letter said the toll when all related deaths are factored in could be as high as 186,000.
On Friday, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the UK would drop the previous government’s objection to the arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant, saying it was a matter for the court.
Sources within the Labour Party had told Middle East Eye about the plans on Thursday, along with the party’s intention to restrict arms sales to the Zionist regime over its war on Gaza.

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