International Criminal Court

Israel’s critics undermine real accountability with reckless accusations - opinion

The debate over Israel, Hamas, and sexual violence raises larger questions about media standards, evidence, and political bias.

 Nicholas Kristof at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
(L-R) Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir

Israel assesses ICC will issue arrest warrants for five officials over Gaza war crime allegations

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich holds a press conference at the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem, May 19, 2026.

Smotrich says ICC ordered arrest warrant, orders evacuation of West Bank village Khan al-Ahmar

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich after a press conference at the ministry, December 4, 2025; illustrative.

ICC plans to seek arrest warrant for Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich - report


IDF risks global arrest warrants as legal probes on Gaza war crimes stall - analysis

Delays risk global arrest warrants, as seen in a Brazil case. Critics warn of travel restrictions for Israelis unless the IDF publishes reports on its investigations promptly.

  The Hind Rajab Foundation accuses an Israeli solider of 'war crimes.' Illustrative

Israel regains its mojo: Six key stories in a defining year for the Jewish state

NATIONAL AFFAIRS- Even by Israeli standards, the tempo of events this year was extraordinary.

 FROM EXPLODING PAGERS, a seven-front war, and ICC arrest warrants, 2024 was packed with dramatic developments destined to reshape Israel and the region for generations. Here, a protester attends a demonstration after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sacked his defense minister, Yoav Gallant.

It’s time for the Hausdorff perspective - interview

Natasha Hausdorff is a UK lawyer who frequently speaks out on TV in favor of Israel, focusing specifically on countering false narratives that have become widespread in current times.

 NATASHA HAUSDORFF

Netanyahu will be arrested if he comes to Auschwitz memorial, Polish government confirms

Education Minister Yoav Kisch will be the only representative at the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on January 27.

 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in front of Auschwitz (illustrative).

Netanyahu calls ICC’s arrest warrants ‘a modern-day Dreyfus affair’

Netanyahu remarked that “the antisemitic decision of the ICC is akin to a modern-day Dreyfus affair – and it will end in the same way.”

 THE ARREST warrants, which the ICC issued against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant, are ridiculous, absurd and baseless, the writer asserts.

'A feeling of a lost opportunity': Did Europe’s passivity cost lives in Hamas war? - opinion

“As an international community, we could have forced Hamas out and started working already on a future for the Gaza Strip," said a Biden aide.

 US SECRETARY of State Antony Blinken (left) is greeted by then-EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell in Brussels last month.

Netanyahu commends Paraguayan president on response to ICC arrest warrant

Pena’s visit is centered on Paraguay’s moving its embassy to Jerusalem.

 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the Knesset. December 11, 2024.

How Jerusalem’s inaction fueled the ICC’s anti-Israel agenda – opinion

How Palestinian manipulation and ICC bias led to arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant.

 RIYAD MANSOUR, permanent Palestinian observer to the UN, addresses the Security Council on the situation in Gaza last month. In 2012, when the Palestinians asked the UN to recognize the ‘State of Palestine,’ Israel should have declared that it was a breach of the Oslo Accords, the writer argues.

ICC president says war crimes tribunal is in jeopardy

Tomoko Akane did not name the US and Russia, but she heavily implied that the countries' actions against the ICC were affecting the court's impartiality.

 Presiding judge Antoine Kesia-Mbe Mindua, Judge Tomoko Akane, and Judge Kimberly Prost prepare to deliver the verdict in the case of Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, June 26, 2024.

ICC arrest orders press IDF to publicize alleged war crimes probe decisions, sources say

There is finally more powerful counterpressure to get public decisions on the cases to show that the Israeli legal system takes its probes of its own soldiers seriously.

 IDF soldiers are seen working as part of the Israeli military's Gaza battlefield intelligence collection unit.