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ICC prosecutor: UK didn’t blitz the IRA — Israel needs that restraint

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The British barrister Karim Khan knew when he announced he was seeking arrest warrants against leaders of Israel and Hamas that he was stepping into a political minefield.

But as chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) — as well as someone from a persecuted minority whose own parents were once attacked in a Yorkshire town hall — he insists he had no choice.

“What this comes down to is, ‘Do we want to live in a world where law is applied equally or one where we close our eyes and turn away because of our allegiances?’ ” he said.

Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a house in Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza, this week

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“Of course one is aware that Gaza is on the faultline of international relations but that cannot be an excuse not to try everywhere

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