In a brief statement to the press, the PMO said that although Israel rejects the ICC's jurisdiction, it had informed the court it would submit an appeal which it asserted would demonstrate "how absurd and "without foundation" the arrest warrants were.It also requested that implementation of the arrest warrants be delayed. Even though the arrest warrants have already been issued, the court does have the discretion to suspend the warrants while an appeal is pending.The PMO also announced that Netanyahu met with US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham in his office in Jerusalem on Wednesday, where the Senator updated the PM on "a series of steps that he is advancing in the US Congress against the ICC and against countries that have cooperated with it".The ICC charged Netanyahu and Gallant last week of war crimes and crimes against humanity over their prosecution of the war in Gaza. The allegations relate in particular to charges that the two leaders committed the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare by hindering the supply of aid to Gaza; the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution and other inhumane acts; & of attacks against civilians."Israel's appeal notice exposes in detail just how absurd the issuance of arrest warrants was and how it lacks any factual or legal basis," the PMO said. If the ICC were to reject the appeal, it would only "underline to Israel's friends in the US and the world how biased the ICC is against Israel."

Israel to appeal Bibi & Gallant's ICC warrants

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