Israeli officials slam ICC for seeking arrest warrant against Netanyahu

Israeli officials have slammed the ICC's announcement that it's seeking arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his defence chief and three Hamas leaders over alleged war crime in Gaza. Netanyahu says the ICC decision is absurd, and that the move is meant to target Israel. The warrants for Hamas leaders are for charges linked to a surprise attack on Israel, which killed around 1,200 people last October. Over 35,000 Palestinians have been killed since Tel-Aviv began its offensive in response to that assault.
Acting Israel and Palestine Associate Director at Human Rights Watch, Bill Van Esveld weighs in.
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Hamas officials say they do not regret the October 7 attack on Israel and would do it again.
The Israeli response has killed thousands of Palestinians, but Hamas says the price is worth it.
The goal was to "overthrow" the status quo, not "improve the situation in Gaza," one official said.
More than 10,000 Palestinians have been killed in the month since Hamas' terrorist attacks inside southern Israel, the group's health ministry in Gaza says.
But Hamas officials say the mounting death toll, believed to include thousands of children, has not caused the group to regret its actions in southern Israel, which Israeli officials said killed 1,400 people.
In fact, Hamas leaders say that their goal was to trigger this very response and that they're still hoping for a bigger war. It's all part of a strategy, they say, to derail talks over Israel normalizing relations with regional powers - namely, Saudi Arabia - and draw the world's attention to the Palestinian cause.
Hamas, these officials say, is more interested in the destruction of Israel than what it sees as the temporary hardships faced by Palestinians under Israeli bombardment.

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