On May 20th the prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (icc), Karim Khan, announced that he was requesting arrest warrants for Binyamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, Israel’s prime minister and defence minister, along with the leaders of Hamas, the Islamist movement that launched the deadly attack on Israel on October 7th last year, on charges of war crimes. Mr Khan, a British lawyer, issued detailed and lengthy accusations against both sides. He opened with the allegations against the Hamas chiefs, Yahya Sinwar (pictured right), Mohammed Deif and Ismail Haniyeh, detailing the wanton murder, sexual assault and kidnapping of Israeli citizens. But the charges against the Israeli ministers were no less pointed. Shoul Israel prime minister be arrested for the crimes committed in Gaza ?
