Foreign Ministry officials have warned a number of cabinet ministers against traveling to Spain after learning an international arrest warrant for alleged war crimes has been issued against them in that country.
A local human rights organization representing PA interests filed the proceedings leading to the warrant. The warrant addresses the IDF surgical strike in Gaza six years ago, targeting senior Hamas terrorist Salach Schadah. 16 people were killed in the aerial strike.
The list of suspects include most heads of security and defense agencies at the time; then Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, IDF Chief of Staff Moshe Ya’alon, ISA (Israel Security Agency – Shin Bet) Chief Avi Dichter, Air Force Commander Dan Halutz, IDF Operations Chief Giora Eiland, and IDF Southern District Command Doron Almog. Former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who has been comatose for over two years and exists on life support, is also listed in the warrant.
Spain belongs to the group of nations who are members in the International Court in The Hague, permitting the international warrant.
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni may request that authorities in Spain to cancel the warrant since the matter of the surgical strike and the loss of innocent lives was addressed in local Israeli courts.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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The warrant could be enforceable in any E.U. country.
Such tipshus you can’t just find anywhere- you’ve got to go to a place like spain!
Israel should make it clear to the EU that any attempt to enforce these warrants will be treated as an act of war.
I’m sure the EU will recoil in fear of a military attack by Israel. They will surely cower and surrender in defeat to the Israeli armed forces.
Its all academic, but also remember most of the EU is part of NATO, and an attack on any NATO member is by law an attack on all NATO members.
So Spain is at it again. The country who brought us their infamous Inquisition and Expuslsion – which together has probably caused, directly or indirectly, the bloodshed of innocent Jews, and sh’mad, of almost as many people as Hitler ym”sh – is again declaring, this time in an international forum, that Yiddishe blood is hefker.
it the israeli citizens themselves who should issue an arrest warrant for this criminally insane traitorous government,in any other normal country this traitorous gangster ehud olmert yemach shemo,would be deposed and put on trial for high treason,and if found guilty ,he would be hung by his miserable neck
kissinger has the same problem, as do several us govt officials.
they think cause they one the football Euro Cup after 44 years, they can do as they wish!
#8, No civilized country has a warrant out on Kissinger or other US officials, active or retired.