Democracy for the Arab World Now (Dawn) has also urged the US to suspend all arms transfers to Israel, “given the ICC’s conclusion that Israeli officials at the highest levels are engaging in war crimes for which the court is seeking their arrest”, Al Jazeera reports.

“US officials involved in approving and sending additional weapons to Israel may find themselves next in line facing ICC arrest warrants,” said Raed Jarrar, Dawn’s advocacy director.

Following Khan’s application for arrest warrants, a panel of pre-trial judges will determine whether the evidence supports their issuing.

Sarah Leah Whitson, Dawn’s executive director, also called for warrants to indict Israeli officials for Israel’s ongoing settlement enterprise, which are also war crimes under the Rome Statute.

“Any effort to ‘balance’ warrants against Israeli officials with an equal number of warrants against Palestinian officials would be an embarrassing concession to political calculations,” she said.