Yesterday, Monday, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese became the first Western president to be referred to the International Criminal Court for being an “accomplice to genocide,” after providing political and material support for the genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.

More than 100 lawyers supported the referral under Article 15 of the Rome Statute, against Albanese, a member of the Labor Party, as well as members of his government and parliament, who provided the occupation with “rhetorical support in public statements and press conferences” in addition to material assistance, as revealed by lawyer Sherine Omri for “News Breakfast” on ABC.

Omari said that the assistance provided by Australia since the occupation began the genocidal war on Gaza included the export of spare parts for F-35 fighter aircraft, in addition to military intelligence information through the surveillance work carried out by the government at the Pine Gap Joint Defense Facility in the Northern Territory of Australia. .

While Albanese recently called on the occupation to respect international law, Omri said there had been very little in the way of urging restraint on the occupation and discouraging what the international community might do “despite months having passed since the war,” the website reported. Common Dreams.

The Court of Justice concluded on January 26 that it was a plausible case of genocide.”

The 92-page document compiled by the legal team outlines a number of specific ways in which officials in the Albanese government and other Australians acted as an accomplice to the genocide, including: freezing $6 million in funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East amid Humanitarian crisis due to unconfirmed claims by the occupation; Providing military aid and approving the export of defendants to the occupation, which could be used by the occupying army in the context of ostensibly committing genocide and crimes against humanity; the mysterious deployment of an Australian military unit to the region, whose exact location and role have not been revealed; allowing Australians, explicitly or implicitly, to travel to join the Israeli army and participate in its attacks on Gaza.

Omari explained in a statement that “the Rome Statute stipulates four forms of individual criminal responsibility, two of which are annexed.”

Along with Albanese, US President Joe Biden, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz are among the Western leaders who have repeatedly defended the occupation's crimes in Gaza - despite the genocidal intent expressed in numerous public statements by occupation leaders.

Biden was sued in federal court in January for “complicity in genocide committed by the Israeli government.” This case is still working its way through the US appeals process.