The warrants against the Israeli politicians mark the first time the ICC has targeted the top leader of a close ally of the United States.
A panel of ICC judges will now consider Khan’s application for the arrest warrants.
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, at left, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at right, are pictured.
Khan said the charges against Sinwar, Haniyeh and al-Masri include “extermination, murder, taking of hostages, rape and sexual assault in detention.”.
Hamas-led militants killed around 1,200 people across several locations in southern Israel on October 7 and took some 250 hostages into Gaza.
“The fact that Hamas fighters need water doesn’t justify denying water from all the civilian population of Gaza,” he added.
While the ICJ considers cases that involve countries and nations, and the ICC is a criminal court, which brings cases against individuals for war crimes or crimes against humanity. »