Overview
- Appeals judges rejected Israel’s bid to curb the case, affirming jurisdiction to investigate alleged crimes in Gaza after the October 7, 2023 attacks.
- The decision preserves arrest warrants issued in 2024 for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant.
- Judges held that the prosecutor’s March 9, 2021 notification under Article 18 sufficiently encompassed later conduct, so no new notice was required.
- Israel’s Foreign Ministry denounced the outcome as politicized and said it disregards complementarity and the sovereign rights of non‑member states.
- Two judges, Luz Del Carmen Ibáñez Carranza and Solomy Balungi Bossa, dissented, and separate Israeli challenges to jurisdiction and procedure remain pending.