ICC prosecutor requests five new arrest warrants for Israeli officials

A prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) is pursuing five new arrest warrants for Israeli officials. These include Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.

However, the ICC has not yet issued them.

According to Haaretz, the ICC prosecutor also named Settlement Minister Orit Struck and two military officials.

In 2024, the ICC issued arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.

The ICC found that there were:

reasonable grounds to believe that each has committed the war crime of using starvation as a method of warfare and crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts, as a direct perpetrator, acting jointly with others.

The Chamber also found reasonable grounds to believe that they are each responsible for the war crime of intentionally directing attacks against civilians as a superior.

Shady MOD contracts

Shockingly, Smotrich’s Ministry of Finance owns an arms factory in the UK. Meaning an Israeli state-owned weapons factory, responsible for the mass murder of Palestinian children, is just sitting alongside the Tyne River in Newcastle. 

Pearson is responsible for supplying parts for armoured vehicles and also specialises in combat robotics. Rafael, Israel’s state-owned arms manufacturer, owns it. Rafael also produces missiles and drones for the IOF. Even on Companies House, the Israeli government is listed as holding the controlling stake in the firm.

To make matters worse, the British government recently awarded Pearson Engineering a £10m Ministry of Defence contract.

Smotrich has repeatedly called for Israel to completely ethnically cleanse all 1.8m people from Gaza, so it can ‘be settled’.

He himself is an illegal settler in the Occupied West Bank, and the Israeli government has granted him sweeping ministerial powers to “direct and expand” Israeli settlement policy.

ICC arrest warrant for Ben-Gvir?

Ben-Gvir is another piece-of-shit illegal settler in Kiryat Araba, one of the most radical settlements in the occupied West Bank. Previously, he stated that his rights are more important than those of Palestinians and is the psychopath behind a new law sentencing Palestinians to death.

He is the leader of Otzma Yehudit, or Jewish Power, a far-right, anti-arab party.

He has racked up at least eight criminal convictions, including supporting a terrorist organisation and inciting racism. His criminal record is so long that when he appeared before a judge, a former official said:

we had to change the ink on the printer

In 2022, he pulled a gun on Palestinian parking attendants in Tel Aviv, and was part of a group of settlers who slashed Palestinians’ car tyres and tried to storm one family’s home. When Palestinians responded by throwing stones, he pulled out a gun, despite the police presence at the scene.

Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert described Ben-Gvir as an “imminent danger to Israel” compared to a nuclear-armed Iran.

He has also made clear his intentions to ethnically cleanse Lebanon, Gaza, and the West Bank.

In 2025, he and Smotrich both called the soldiers who were guilty of raping a Palestinian prisoner at the Sde Teiman detention ‘heroes’.

The IOF even banned Ben-Gvir from joining because of his ‘extremist past’. Imagine being too extreme to join a bunch of literal terrorists.

Orit Strock

Orit Strock is the Minister for Settlement and National Missions, and is also an illegal settler in the Avraham Avinu settlement in Hebron. She is a member of Smotrich’s far-right religious Zionist party.

In April, a car from Struck’s motorcade hit and killed a Palestinian child near the illegal settlement of Kiryat Arba in the occupied West Bank.

A 16-year-old Palestinian boy has been killed after he was struck by a vehicle reportedly belonging to far-right Israeli minister Orit Strock’s security convoy near the illegal settlement of Kiryat Arba in the occupied West Bank. pic.twitter.com/7RsHIYopS5

— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) April 21, 2026

Only recently, Strock’s daughter, Shoshana, reportedly died by suicide after publicly accusing her family of enduring alleged ritual sexual abuse from as young as two and a half years old. She had just appointed lawyers to pursue justice for the crimes against her.

However, in December 2025, Shoshana warned her Facebook followers that she was in danger of being murdered to silence her. And she told them not to believe a word of it if she was found dead and it was called suicide, or an ‘accident’.

Of course, Jewish law generally prohibits autopsies. That’s pretty convenient.

An Israeli court issued a gag order to domestic media, which prevented outlets from linking the allegations to Strock’s mother and other named individuals. However, it does not apply to international media outlets.

Of course, they all deserved their day in the Hague.

If I called for the levels of violence on these individuals that they have called for in Gaza, the police would lock me up for inciting. These guys are on another planet — one in which the rules do not apply to Zionists.

Of course, these people alone are not the issue. Zionism and Jewish supremacy are the problem. As long as both exist, more psychopathic, genocidal war criminals will continue to rise to power.

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