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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that Courts must impose “death sentences” Instead of arrest warrants for Israeli leaders, including the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu for “war crimes” committed by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon.

“What the Zionist regime did in Gaza and Lebanon This is not a victory, but a war crime“he said after the International Criminal Court (ICC) last week issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and his former defense minister Yoav Gallant for alleged war crimes in the Gaza offensive.

Thus, during a speech to members of the Basij volunteer detachment, he emphasized that these arrest warrants were “not enough” and demanded their issuance “death sentences” against “Netanyahu and the criminal leaders of his regime,” said a video of the event broadcast on his own website.

Khamenei also stressed that “the enemy has not won in Gaza and Lebanon” and that “The enemy will not win in Gaza and Lebanon.” “Today the front of resistance is expanding as much as possible. Tomorrow this expansion will increase,” he added, referring to armed groups that Tehran supports in the region, including the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and the Lebanese Shiite militia party Hezbollah.

On the other hand, the Supreme Leader of Iran emphasized that “The Zionist regime will be destroyedand confirmed that “bombing the homes of the population in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon is not a victory.”

“Fools should not think that they benefit from bombing houses and hospitals. “No one should consider this a victory,” he said.

Khamenei’s words came after Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps chief Hossein Salami said on Friday that the aforementioned arrest warrants were a sign of ““political death” of Israel. “The world is closing its doors,” he said, before applauding the ICC for “labeling the leaders of the Zionist regime as war criminals who must be prosecuted, arrested and tried.”

Arrest warrants were issued for Netanyahu and Gallant on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed as part of a military offensive launched more than a year ago against the Gaza Strip in response to the attacks carried out on October 7, 2023. Hamas and other Palestinian groups that have left almost 1200 killed and about 250 kidnapped, According to Israeli authorities.

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The court also ordered the arrest of the head of Hamas’s military wing, Mohamed Diab al-Masri, known as “Abu Deif”, after other leaders of the Islamist group were previously identified. Yahya Sinwar and Ismail Haniyeh, died in recent months during Israeli operations. Israel considers him dead, although the group has not officially confirmed this.

(Europe Press)