THE Jerusalem court hearing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial has postponed hearings set for next week as Netanyahu undergoes a prostate operation on Sunday. The hearings will now be held on January 6 and subsequent days. Netanyahu is charged with fraud, embezzlement and bribery. The accusations against him include that he granted … Read more
OVER four years after it began, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the witness stand on Tuesday for the first time to give testimony in his long-running corruption trial. Netanyahu, 75, has been widely accused of using Israel’s various regional wars as a way of either avoiding giving evidence in the trial or even ending it completely. … Read more
THE International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday announced a decision that has been widely recognised as a historic precedent. A panel of three judges, known as Pre-Trial Chamber I, issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant and Hamas military commander Mohammed Deif over a range of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The warrants against Netanyahu … Read more
THE British government has said it will comply with its obligations under domestic and international law after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence minister. On Thursday, the government refused to confirm whether Netanyahu would be arrested if he set foot on British soil. On Friday afternoon, … Read more
THE court had sought the arrests of Benjamin Netanyahu and the former Israeli defense minister, Yoav Gallant, over war crimes in Gaza. It also issued a warrant for Hamas’s military chief.
U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington next week, the White House said on Friday. “We have every expectation that the two leaders will have the chance to see each other while Prime Minister Netanyahu is in town,” White House national security spokesperson John Kirby told … Read more
THE White House has pushed back against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claims that the US is “withholding” weapons and ammunition from Israel, hours after he lashed out at the Biden administration. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre confirmed an ongoing pause remained on one particular shipment of bombs, echoing comments from Secretary of State … Read more
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a video statement that the Israeli forces will continue their attacks in Gaza in spite the U.S. threat to halt some weapon shipments. “If Israel is forced to stand alone, Israel will stand alone,” said Netanyahu in a public speech made on Sunday’s Israeli Holocaust Memorial Day and … Read more