ICC Prosecutor condemns Israeli massacre at Al-Jaouni School

THE HAGUE, Sept. 12 (YPA) – Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, has republished statements by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, in which he condemned the Israeli massacre at Al-Jaouni School in the central Gaza Strip.

“What is happening in Gaza is completely unacceptable,” Guterres said in remarks retweeted by Karim Khan. “A school that had been used as a shelter for 12,000 people was hit by Israeli airstrikes again.”

The remarks included an emphasis that “among those killed were six of our UNRWA colleagues. These tragic violations of international humanitarian law must stop now.”
At least eighteen people were killed and dozens were injured when the occupation forces bombed Al-Jaouni School, which houses a large number of displaced people in the Nuseirat camp in the central Strip.

On Wednesday, Karim Khan called on the court’s Pre-Trial Chamber I to issue the arrest warrants he requested last May against Israeli occupation’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and Hamas leaders Yahiya Sinwar and Mohammed Dheif “with the utmost urgency.”

In a brief filed Monday, Khan said the arrest warrants were necessary because of the ongoing crimes he cited in his initial request regarding the deteriorating situation in Palestine. Khan had requested arrest warrants for Israeli leaders in May for crimes against humanity.

But in July, the ICC’s Pre-Trial Chamber I allowed other parties to submit submissions to the court on the case, including whether the ICC has jurisdiction over Israeli citizens.

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