Politics

The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor announced that he was seeking arrest warrants for the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, and defence minister, Yoav Gallant, as well as three leaders of Hamas. Joe Biden, the American president, called the Israeli warrants “outrageous”; his government may work with Congress to impose sanctions on the ICC. Mr Netanyahu’s opponents, who have threatened to leave his government if he does not change course in Gaza, rallied round him too.