President Joe Biden called the International Criminal Court's arrest warrants for Israeli officials 'outrageous' on Monday.
in a statement Monday. “And let me be clear: whatever this prosecutor might imply, there is no equivalence — none — between Israel andfor the arrests of Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, as well as the following senior Hamas leaders: Yahya Sinwar, the head of Hamas in Gaza, Mohammed Deif, the head of the military, and Ismail Haniyeh, the head of its political bureau.
“We reject the Prosecutor’s equivalence of Israel with Hamas,” Blinken said. “It is shameful. 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.”
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