Leader: Israel’s bombing of houses in Gaza, Lebanon not victory but ‘war crime’
‘Arrest warrant not enough, Netanyahu must be executed’
Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said Israel’s bombing of houses and hospitals in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon is not a victory but a “war crime.”
The Israeli regime has not won its wars on Gaza and Lebanon, and it will never be able to do so, Ayatollah Khamenei said during a meeting with members of the Iranian Basij volunteer force on Monday, on the occasion of Basij Week.
Referring to the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his ousted minister of military affairs Yoav Gallant, the Leader said, “The arrest warrant is not enough, Netanyahu’s death sentence must be handed down.”
The Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant over their war crimes related to the ongoing Gaza genocide.
Now, the pair are at risk of arrest if they step foot in any of the 124 countries that signed the Rome Statute establishing the ICC.
More than 44,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip as a result of Israeli military action since the beginning of its devastating war on the Palestinian territory in October 2023. Thousands more are missing under the rubble, most of them presumed dead.
According to the Palestinian officials, Israel has killed at least 17,400 children in Gaza. That is one child killed every 30 minutes.
Alongside the fatalities, nearly 60% of buildings in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed since the beginning of the war.
Nearly two million Palestinians have been also displaced by the Israel’s army and face a grave humanitarian crisis.
The Israel regime has also claimed the lives of more than 3,750 people and wounded over 15,620 people in Lebanon since October 2023 when Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement began to target Israel’s military positions in support of Palestinian fighters in Gaza.
Since then, the Israeli army and Hezbollah have been exchanging fire. But most of the deaths in Lebanon occurred after the regime intensified its strikes on Lebanon in September.