Biden: “The arrest warrant for Netanyahu is shameful. No equivalence between Israel and Hamas”

The US president: "We will always stand by Israel"

ROME – “The request of the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court for arrest warrants for Israeli leaders is shameful“. This was stated by the President of the United States Joe Biden in a statement released by the White House through which he attacks the ICC prosecutor Karim Khan for having asked the Court to authorize the arrest warrants for the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuand the leader of the Palestinian organization Hamas Yahya Sinwarfor war crimes and crimes against humanity.

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“Let me be clear: whatever this prosecutor may imply, there is no equivalence between Israel and Hamas. We will always stand by Israel against threats to its security< /strong>,” Biden concluded.