I'm happy to talk to you and give you an answer to your question. I'm just dumbfounded in that I've not given any evidence, nor have I been asked to give evidence today about my position regarding a non-state armed group, Hamas. I've not said anything about Hamas.
I will try my best in good faith to answer your question about Hamas's actions on October 7. My view is that on that day, as a matter of international law, the attacks against Israel and Israeli civilians were unlawful, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, quite frankly. There are now arrest warrants out for the leaders of Hamas. Some of the arrest warrants are out for individuals, three leaders of Hamas, who have been killed by the Israelis since.
I would think that the Office of the Prosecutor of the ICC is going to continue to examine this matter and perhaps deliver more arrest warrants in respect to the events that took place on that day, as directed by Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups.
At the same time, on that fateful day of October 7, to the extent that Palestinian armed groups attacked legitimate military targets, which they did empirically—IDF targets, pillboxes, the wall and military bases—
