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The Hamas-led raid last October led to the killing of roughly 1,200 people in Israel and the abductions of some 250 others, according to Israeli officials. The subsequent war in Gaza, including heavy Israeli bombardment, has killed more than 34,000 people, according to Gazan officials, caused widespread damage to housing and infrastructure, and brought the territory to the brink of famine.
The Israeli assault in Gaza has led the International Court of Justice, a separate court in The Hague, to hear accusations of genocide against the Israeli state and has spurred a wave of protests on college campuses in the United States.
If the I.C.C. does issue arrest warrants, they would come with deep stigmatization, placing those named in them in the same category as foreign leaders like Omar al-Bashir, the deposed president of Sudan, and Vladimir V. Putin, the Russian president, who was the subject of a warrant last year tied to his war against Ukraine.
The I.C.C.’s focus on individuals rather than states differentiates it from the International Court of Justice, which settles disputes between states.
Mr. Khan has declared that his team believes it has the jurisdiction to investigate episodes that have occurred since Oct. 7 and said that he would be “impartially looking at the evidence and vindicating the rights of victims whether they are in Israel or Palestine.”
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