Palestinian foreign ministry demands ICC arrest warrant for Israel's Smotrich

Palestine's foreign ministry released a statement demanding the International Criminal Court (ICC) issue an arrest warrant for Israel's far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.

Smotrich had made a statement in which he said his government should allow the starvation of two million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, which he says would be justified, but that the international community would not allow it.

"Smotrich’s statements are an explicit admission of adopting and bragging about the policy of genocide," the ministry said, adding that the comments are a "direct expression of the ugliest forms of fascism".