ICC prosecutor Karim Khan, in an October 2023 speech in Cairo, Egypt warned Hamas that hostage taking is a war crime and called for the immediate release of all hostages and their safe return to their families -- nearly 8 months later....
Extracts: Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was criticised for his reaction to the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor pursuing the arrest of Israel's and Hamas' leaders
Overnight the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade released a clarifying statement, saying "there is no equivalence between Israel and Hamas"
Opposition frontbencher Senator Jane Hume said, "We should stand shoulder to shoulder with [US President] Joe Biden in his objection to this decision by the ICC's chief prosecutor, who decided to compare the leaders of a liberal democracy, one of our allies, with the leaders of a terrorist organisation"
Originally Posted by Hollander
The ICC should be taken seriously by USA Russia Israel they are not above the law.
Didn't Russian President Vladimir Putin just visit China without getting arrested
Originally Posted by Hollander
Hamas are smart group I remember that old guy way back he was in a wheelchair Israel took him out. If Israel want to take out Hamas leadership they have to do it the right way not kill innocent people.
It is the innocent civilians indeed -- Palestinian in particular between a rock and a hard place -- paying the price [as in other wars as well] because Israel was asleep at the wheel and the Technology can only do so much eg: Iron Dome
among others, Australian Qantas QF32 Aviation incident 04 November 2010 The state of the art Airbus A380 computer kept listing all the issues, things going wrong after the uncontained Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engine failure but still needed humans to monitor the situation and safely, emergency land the plane at Singapore Changi airport
