@cspanofficial: State Department spokesman Matthew Miller on Monday said the U.S. “fundamentally rejects” the decision by the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) chief prosecutor to seek an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor, announced he would seek arrest warrants for the prime minister and his defense minister, Yoav Gallant, as well as Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar on charges of crimes against humanity. “We reject the prosecutor’s equivalence of Israel with Hamas. It is shameful,” Mr. Miller said, reading a statement by Secrerary of State Antony Blinken. “Hamas is a brutal terrorist organization that carried out the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust and is still holding dozens of innocent people hostage, including Americans.” Israel and the U.S. are not members of the ICC, and the State Department reiterated its view that the court has no jurisdiction over the war in Gaza. #statedepartment #icc #internationalcriminalcourt #benjaminnetanyahu #gazawar #cspan

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