International Criminal Court prosecutor seeks arrest warrant against Netanyahu for “war crimes”

**The original headline has been retracted by Agence France-Presse (AFP)**

The ICC’s Chief prosecutor Karim Kahn said he has requested arrest warrants from the judges of the court for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.

Their crimes are “causing extermination, causing starvation as a method of war including the denial of humanitarian relief supplies, deliberately targeting civilians in conflict,” Kahn said.