The International Criminal Court's prosecutor seeks arrest warrants for two Israeli officials, Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Galant, for war crimes related to aid denial in Gaza. The focus is on political rather than military officials, highlighting the use of starvation and deprivation as a weapon of war, constituting a war crime with significant political consequences for Israel and its allies.
The chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court has caused outrage by requesting arrest warrants for both Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Hamas’s leaders. China’s young people, on the lookout for safe ways to invest modest sums, have settled on collecting little gold beans (13:20). And Hawaii may soon have the first official state gesture (17:04).
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