ICSPR Welcomes the Decision of the Turkish Public Prosecution to Issue Arrest Warrants Against 37 Israeli Officials and Calls to Expand International Jurisdiction to Prosecute War Criminals in Gaza
Date: 8 November 2025
Press Statement
ICSPR Welcomes the Decision of the Turkish Public Prosecution to Issue Arrest Warrants Against 37 Israeli Officials and Calls to Expand International Jurisdiction to Prosecute War Criminals in Gaza
The International Commission to Support Palestinian Rights (ICSPR) welcomes the bold legal step taken by the Public Prosecution in Istanbul, issuing arrest warrants against 37 Israeli officials, including the Israeli occupation Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Minister of War, and a number of senior army commanders and settlers, for committing genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip.
ICSPR considers this step a qualitative development in the path of international justice, and reflects a courageous political and judicial will that respects Turkey’s obligations under the 1948 Convention on the Prevention of the Crime of Genocide, the four Geneva Conventions of 1949, and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
ICSPR believes that this judicial initiative restores the principle of non-impunity, and sends a clear message that international humanitarian law is applicable to everyone without exception, and that leaders of the occupation will not remain immune from accountability no matter how long it takes, considering the systematic massacres they committed, the comprehensive destruction of civilian infrastructure, and the deliberate starvation of the civilian population in the Gaza Strip.
ICSPR calls on all UN Member States to follow the Turkish and Spanish models, by activating the principle of universal jurisdiction to pursue and hold accountable the perpetrators of crimes in the occupied Palestinian territory, and to take urgent national and international judicial measures that include Israeli officials and their partners from states and companies that provided weapons or political cover to the occupation during the ongoing genocidal war.
ICSPR also calls on the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to accelerate the pace of the ongoing investigations in the Palestine file, and to issue additional immediate arrest warrants against senior Israeli officials and their partners, in line with the available overwhelming evidence, and to preserve international justice and deter the continuation of crimes and violations in the occupied Palestinian territory.
ICSPR confirms that these judicial steps represent a foundational building block in the path of international justice and accountability, and calls on the international community to turn legal support into a comprehensive institutional action that ensures stopping the occupation’s crimes and genocide, lifting the blockade, and enabling the Palestinian people to exercise their inalienable rights to freedom, independence and return.
