On Monday, the International Criminal Court announced that it had rejected an appeal by the State of Israel seeking to halt the investigation into crimes committed in Palestine. The investigation, filed by Israel in 2018 and initiated by the court in 2021, emphasized that the proceedings will continue without restarting any deadlines or procedures.
The ICC ruling keeps the case open and upholds the subsequent arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister, Yoav Gallant, alleging “conduct committed in the context of the same type of armed conflicts, relating to the same territories, with the same alleged parties involved in those conflicts.”
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The ICC will investigate “not only crimes that had already been committed or were being committed at the time of the referral, but also crimes committed subsequently” if such a connection exists.
Likewise, the Appeals Chamber rejected the notion that the prosecution’s investigation was limited to the settlement policy in the West Bank. It emphasized that the referral of the case, since 2018, describes a broader context, including systematic crimes that qualify as war crimes and crimes against humanity. humanity.
The ICC appeals chamber has rejected one of Israel’s legal challenges seeking to block an investigation into its actions in its genocidal war on Gaza, dealing a blow to efforts to derail the case https://t.co/YLUeq6fyC9 pic.twitter.com/PQRfVXVpOt
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) December 15, 2025
Israel demanded a new notification in order to halt the Court’s investigation and claimed jurisdiction over its judicial system, arguing that events after October 7, 2023, required a “new notification.”
There is no “new situation” or “new parameters” that would compel the Prosecutor to restart the proceedings as required by the Rome Statute, the ICC ruling emphasized regarding the Zionist state’s request. Furthermore, the Chamber ruled that the current events are sufficiently linked to the crisis situation referred to the Court in 2018, which stems from the same Israeli policies previously denounced.
#ICC Prosecutor @KarimKhanQC announces applications for arrest warrants in relation to Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant in the context of the situation in the State of #Palestine ⤵️https://t.co/WqDZecXFZq pic.twitter.com/bxqLWc5M6u
— Int’l Criminal Court (@IntlCrimCourt) May 20, 2024
It is worth noting that the Israeli side’s attempts are recurrent. Last July, the International Criminal Court (ICC) rejected Tel Aviv’s request to suspend the investigation into alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Palestine and to annul the arrest warrants issued against Prime Minister Benjamin. Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
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