Netanyahu holds call with cabinet members over ICJ ruling as far-right minister criticizes "anti-semitic court"
From CNN’s Rob Picheta and Niamh Kennedy in London and Lauren Izso in Tel Aviv
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began a telephone call 5 p.m. local time (10 a.m. ET) with members of his cabinet regarding the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) ruling, his office said.
The Foreign Minister, the Minister of Strategic affairs, the Minister of Justice, the Minister of Defense, the head of the National Security Council and the Attorney General are all speaking with Netanyahu, the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement.
Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir have already responded to the ruling delivered Friday. In a statement, Smotrich said those who “demand that the State of Israel stop the war” are by proxy demanding that Israel “decree itself to cease to exist.”
“We will not agree to that… If we lay down our weapons, the enemy will reach the beds of our children and women throughout the country,” Smotrich added.
Ben Gvir also responded to the order in a statement Friday, calling the ICJ antisemitic.
"The irrelevant order of the anti-Semitic court in The Hague should have only one answer: the occupation of Rafah, the increase of military pressure and the complete defeat of Hamas - until complete victory in the war is achieved."
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