Former Dutch PM Calls for Prosecuting Netanyahu, The War Criminal

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Former Dutch prime minister Dries van Agt has called for "Israeli" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be tried for war crimes, as the latter heads to The Hague on Tuesday on a diplomatic visit.

Van Agt, 85, is a pro-Palestinian activist who in 2010 announce that an "Israeli" entity should have been created in Germany rather than "Israel", according to JTA.

He told the NPO 1 public television channel on Monday that "a war criminal coming to this country" and that Netanyahu should be sent to the International Criminal Court [ICC].

"The occupation and expansion... building of settlements, of occupied territory, this is according to the Rome Statute, which is... the setup... the statute on which the international criminal court is based, in so many words, a war crime," JTA quoted Van Agt as saying.

"So why should we receive someone who continues with such things, we could have sent him right away to the international criminal court, that would have been better."

The former prime minister continuously condemned "Israel" for the use of force.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team