The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants on Thursday for Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, for alleged war crimes in the Gaza Strip.

The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defense minister and Hamas officials, accusing them of war crimes and crimes against humanity over the war in Gaza and the October attacks that triggered Israel's offensive in the Palestinian territory.

The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Hamas official Mohammed Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri, also known as Mohammed Deif.

The warrants, on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, are based on allegations that Netanyahu and Gallant starved Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

The world’s top war-crimes court issued arrest warrants Thursday Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and top Hamas officials accusing them of crimes against humanity in connection with their war that began more than a year ago.

This week, The Jerusalem Post Podcast hosted Yuval Shany, an Israeli scholar of humanitarian law and human rights, who said that the International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant could haunt them for the rest of their lives.

The Israeli government has officially notified the International Criminal Court (ICC) of its intention to appeal arrest warrants issued for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant over their roles in the Gaza conflict.