The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) chief prosecutor Karim Khan has told judges that Israeli objections to the investigation into the situation in Gaza should be rejected, Al Jazeera reports.

Khan’s formal response was to an appeal by Israel over the court’s jurisdiction after judges issued arrest warrants last year for Netanyahu, his former defence minister and Hamas’s military chief, accusing them of crimes against humanity.

In his combined 55-page response, Khan said the Rome Statute, the treaty that established the ICC, allowed it to prosecute crimes that take place in the territory of member states, regardless of where the perpetrators hail from. Israel is not a signatory to the Rome Statute.

The judges are expected to render a decision in the coming months.