Key Facts

• Israel's finance minister claims the ICC prosecutor is seeking an arrest warrant against him.
• Smotrich blames the Palestinian Authority for pushing the ICC action.
• He plans to order the evacuation of Khan al-Ahmar, a Palestinian Bedouin village in the West Bank.
• The ICC prosecutor's office has not confirmed or denied the warrant request.
• In 2024, the ICC issued arrest warrants for Israeli leaders over war crime accusations linked to Gaza.
• Khan al-Ahmar has about 750 residents and is near Israeli settlements and a planned development called E1.
• The Palestinian Authority and Israeli groups opposed the evacuation plan, seeing it as part of Israeli settlement expansion.
• Smotrich supports annexing the West Bank and sees Khan al-Ahmar’s removal as connected to that goal.