Amnesty International has condemned the US House of Representatives for voting to impose sanctions on International Criminal Court (ICC) officials over issuing war crimes arrest warrants for Israeli leaders.

    Israeli forces killed an estimated 490 Palestinians in the first nine days of 2025, Al Jazeera’s correspondent reports from the war-torn enclave where people face a daily “battle for survival”.

    At least 22 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since dawn on Thursday, medical sources tell Al Jazeera.

    A spokesperson for the Palestinian Authority’s security forces says 247 resistance fighters, which he branded “outlaws”, have been arrested in the occupied West Bank’s Jenin refugee camp.

    Israel’s genocide in Gaza has killed at least 46,006 Palestinians and wounded 109,378 since October 7, 2023. At least 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks that day and more than 200 were taken captive.

    Israeli military carries out raids across occupied West Bank

    The Palestinian news agency Wafa and local news organisations report Israeli military raids in the following areas overnight:

•     Israeli forces raided al-Khader town south of Bethlehem, firing sound bombs and tear gas towards Palestinian homes and shops. No injuries were reported.
•     Israeli soldiers seized two vehicles during a raid on the town of Nilin, west of Ramallah, with no reported arrests or injuries.
•     Raids were also reported in the villages of Hajjah and Baqat al-Hatab, east of Qalqilya, where locals also reported that tear gas and sound grenades were used by Israeli forces. There were no arrests or injuries.
•     Local news outlets reported that Israeli forces stormed the Jalazone refugee camp north of Ramallah and several young Palestinians were arrested in the town of Asira ash-Shamaliya in Nablus.

    Polish former ICC judge condemns government decision not to arrest Netanyahu

    Previously, we reported the Polish government adopted a resolution promising that the highest representatives of Israel – including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – could attend an Auschwitz liberation anniversary event later this month without facing arrest.

    Piotr Hofmanski, former International Criminal Court (ICC) president and a former judge for the court in The Hague, has slammed the decision, saying it will only hurt Poland’s international standing.

    “I don’t know much about politics, but from a legal point of view, the matter is as clear as a needle. There is an arrest warrant for the Prime Minister of Israel on suspicion of committing war crimes and states are obliged to execute it,” Hofmanski told the Onet news outlet.

    Hofmanski continued that the decision “calls into question the very purpose of the ICC’s existence if states refuse to fulfil its obligations”.

    On Thursday, Poland’s President Andrzej Duda urged the government to ignore an ICC arrest warrant issued in November for Netanyahu’s arrest if he attends the ceremony marking 80 years since Russia’s Red Army liberated the Nazi death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau.