An interview with Benyamin Netanyahu on LCI broadcast this Thursday evening
The head of the Israeli government, Benjamin Netanyahu, “will answer questions from Darius Rochebin this Thursday, May 30 from 8:30 p.m. during an exclusive interview”, communicated the TF1 group’s news channel.
Among the themes that will be discussed: the ongoing offensive in Rafah (…), the situation in the Gaza Strip, the decision of the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to request an arrest warrant targeting him, the fate of the hostages of Hamas, assures the channel.
On Sunday, forty-five people died, according to the Hamas health ministry, in a camp for displaced people in Rafah, after an Israeli army strike, provoking a wave of international condemnation. Mr. Netanyahu regretted “a tragic mistake”.
Several elected officials from La France insoumise were indignant at the holding of this television interview. “In France, we receive the war criminal Netanyahu on TV”castigated the founder of the movement Jean-Luc Mélenchon on X. Franco-Palestinian jurist Rima Hassan, seventh on the LFI list in the European elections, quickly called for a rally, writing about that“There is no question of the words of a war criminal being broadcast this evening”.
The head of the Israeli government and his defense minister Yoav Gallant are the subject of arrest warrants from the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, for crimes against humanity for extermination, murder, persecution and others inhumane acts, as well as for war crimes of murder, physical and mental harm, cruel treatment, intentional attacks against civilians and willful starvation of a population.
In his other request, the prosecutor requests warrants against the leader of Hamas in Gaza, Yahya Sinouar, the military leader of the movement, Mohammed Deif, and the head of its political bureau, Ismaïl Haniyeh, for crimes against humanity and crimes of war, for extermination, murder, hostage-taking, torture, cruel treatment, attack on personal dignity and rape and sexual violence against people in captivity.