2024-11-22
12 分钟On today’s show: The International Criminal Court issued war-crime arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a leader of Hamas. What happens now? The Guardian has more. There’s a question stumping world leaders at the COP29 climate conference: Who’s rich enough to pay for climate change? Grist’s Jake Bittle explains why it’s so complicated. More people are cutting ties with family. Estrangement therapist Joshua Coleman spoke with Apple News In Conversation about what’s fueling this trend. Plus, Matt Gaetz withdrew his nomination for attorney general, and Trump tapped longtime ally Pam Bondi as his new pick. A top college is making tuition free for most students. And Constance Grady from Vox explains the hype around ‘Wicked,’ which hits theaters today. Today’s episode was guest-hosted by Gideon Resnick.
Good morning.
It's Friday, November 22nd.
I'm Gideon Resnick in for Shemita Basu.
This is Apple News today.
On today's show, what countries are rich enough to pay for climate change, why more people are cutting ties with family members.
And Matt Gaetz withdraws from consideration for attorney general.
And Trump taps a new nominee.
But first, arrest warrants were issued yesterday by the International Criminal Court for Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
There was also a warrant for a leader in Hamas, Mohammed Deif, the military chief believed to be one of the Masterminds of the October 7th attack on Israel that killed over 1,200 people and sparked the war in Gaza.
In the warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant, the court's three judge panel alleges that Israel used starvation as a method of warfare and intentionally targeted civilians in Gaza.
Over 44,000 Palestinians have been killed in the war and more than half are women and children.
The court said that Israel's restrictions on aid and fuel and electricity cutoffs severely impacted the availability of water in Gaza and hospitals ability to provide care.
Israel vehemently denies all the allegations, with President Isaac Herzog calling the warrants outrageous.
Netanyahu's office called them antisemitic.
And the White House said in a statement that the US Rejects the ICC decision.
BBC news correspondent Anna Hooligan, who is based in the Hague, reports that the allegations focused on a roughly eight month period of the war between October 2023 and May 2024.
And she says initially these warrants were kept secret.
One of the reasons why the ICC has released them now, they say, because they believe similar conduct may be ongoing and they consider it in the interests of victims and their families that they are made aware of the warrant's existence.
In fact, PBS spoke to aid workers in Gaza who say they are seeing what the ICC described in these warrants on the ground in Gaza today.
Here's Arwa Damon with the International Network for Aid, Relief and Assistance.