Israeli leader Netanyahu 'has approached US lawmakers to help avoid war crimes charges' over Palestinian civilian deaths
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Israeli leader Netanyahu 'has approached US lawmakers to help avoid war crimes charges' over Palestinian civilian deaths
Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has met with US lawmakers in the hope
that they can ring-fence his country from Palestinian accusations that
it committed war crimes during the recent fighting.
Israel
has consistently maintained that its military strikes on Gaza, some of
which have resulted in civilian deaths, have been in self-defence
against rocket attacks from terrorist group Hamas.
However,
Palestinian officials are thought to be considering joining the
International Criminal Court (ICC) in a bid to have Israel investigated.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu has approached US lawmakers in a bid to avoid war crimes
charges. He's pictured here speaking to the media at the defense
ministry in Tel Aviv on Saturday
