A Spanish court has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior Israeli officials for their role in the 2010 attack on the Freedom Flotilla heading to Gaza, local media reported on Friday.
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The judge ordered the police and civil guard to notify him if Netanyahu and the six other individuals enter the country, as their actions could see a case against them regarding the Freedom Flotilla attack of 2010 reopened. The six officials named are Moshe Ya’alon, Dan Meridor, Eli Yishai, Avigdor Lieberman, Ehud Barak, and Benny Begin.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry, meanwhile, has denounced the judge’s order, with its spokesman Emmanuel Nachshon saying, “We consider it to be a provocation”. A judge recommended that the charges be brought before the worldwide Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague, since the National Court of Spain does not have authority to file lawsuits in global incidents. We are working with the Spanish authorities to get it canceled.
Autopsies revealed the nine Turkish men were shot with 30 bullets and five were killed with close-range bullets to the head.
Spanish activists also took part in the flotilla, which was attempting to break Israel’s illegal blockade of the territory.
Israel was cleared by the quasi Israeli-government sponsored Turkel Commission and the UN-sponsored Palmer Report, which validated a few of Israel’s narrative of fighting in self-defense or said there was insufficient evidence to pursue Israel for war crimes, even as the Palmer Report said a few of the IDF’s force was excessive. “We hope that the case will be closed soon, as it should have been a long time ago”. An alert was circulated to South African Border Control system in September.
Gadija Davids, a South African journalist, first made the complaint about the attack in 2011.
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