Israel submitted on Friday formal challenges to the International Criminal Court over its jurisdiction and the legality of arrest warrant requests against Israeli leaders for their conduct of the Gaza war,

Israel said on Friday it had submitted an ‘official challenge’ to a request from the International Criminal Court prosecutor for an arrest warrant against prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) is tasked with prosecuting individuals for the most serious offenses, such as genocide and war crimes. The ICC recently requested arrest warrants for Hamas’s leaders,

Israel has launched a legal challenge to the attempt by the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor to secure arrest warrants against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and defence minister Yoav Gallant.

Israel submitted its official challenge to the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the legality of the requests for arrest warrants by the ICC Prosecutor, Karim Khan KC