The Palestinian Authority (PA) on Sunday called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to issue an arrest warrant against National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir for allegedly supporting the targeted killing of Palestinian Arabs, JPost reports.
A statement issued by the PA”s foreign affairs bureau also accused Ben Gvir of “incitement” for allegedly supporting “a bloody aggression” against Palestinian Arabs in the Gaza Strip.
The appeal to the ICC came after Ben Gvir was quoted by Hebrew-language media as praising Israel”s Operation Shield and Arrow against the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip.
In an apparent reference to the targeted killing of six senior Islamic Jihad terrorists during the operation, Ben Gvir was quoted as saying, “What was in the [military] operation is good and important. The next operation must be in Judea and Samaria.”
The PA bureau denounced Ben Gvir”s remarks as “a license to kill Palestinian citizens” and accused him of calling for “an unjustified military escalation, which reflects an expansionist colonial mentality to perpetuate the gradual annexation of the West Bank.”

The PA officially joined the ICC on April 1, 2015, and immediately filed a series of legal complaints with the court. In addition to claiming that Israel committed war crimes during the 2014 Gaza war, it also claimed that Israeli “settlements” are “an ongoing war crime”.
The PA has had standing at the court since the UN General Assembly recognized the “state of Palestine” as a non-member observer in 2012.