The International Criminal Court announced Thursday it had ruled against Israel’s September petition challenging the court’s jurisdiction and issued arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.

Alongside the warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant, the ICC also issued a warrant for the arrest of Hamas senior commander Mohammed Deif. On Aug. 1, the Israeli military announced that Deif was killed in a July 13 airstrike on Khan Younis, but Hamas never confirmed his death.

The ICC accepted prosecutor Karim Khan's May request to charge Netanyahu and Gallant for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed from Oct. 8 to May 20.

Netanyahu claimed the ICC decision was discriminatory. "The antisemitic decision of the International Criminal Court is a modern Dreyfus trial — and will end the same way," read a statement issued by his office. "Israel utterly rejects the false and absurd charges of the International Criminal Court, a biased and discriminatory political body," it read, adding that the decision to issue the warrants was made "by a corrupt chief prosecutor who is trying to save himself from sexual harassment accusations and biased judges who are motivated by antisemitic hatred of Israel," referring to the ICC's Nov. 11 decision to launch an external investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against Khan, who has denied any wrongdoing.