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Al Jazeera Staff

Palestine urges ICC arrest warrant for Smotrich over call to starve Gaza

Palestinians hold out their empty containers to be filled with food in Rafah amid the Israeli blockade [File: Abed Zagout/Anadolu Agency]

The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to issue an arrest warrant for Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich for saying it may be “justified and moral” to starve Palestinians in Gaza.

In a statement on Thursday, the Foreign Ministry described Smotrich’s comments as an “explicit admission of adopting and bragging about the policy of genocide”.

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