Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Tuesday that the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor is seeking a warrant for his arrest in what he called “a declaration of war.”
In a speech delivered from his office in Jerusalem, Smotrich did not say why the court is seeking a warrant, but he suggested it’s because of the massive expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank that he has pushed.
In April, Israel secretly approved more than 30 new settler outposts and farms as part of a broader push to entrench Israel’s grip on the territory and eliminate the possibility of a Palestinian state.
In a statement…