The International Criminal Court will continue its investigations into crimes committed in the Palestinian territories or by Palestinians, the office of the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, said on Thursday, despite the withdrawal of an arrest warrant for a leader of the Hamas movement.

The International Criminal Court said on Wednesday that judges had withdrawn an arrest warrant for Mohamed Diab Ibrahim al-Masri, known as Mohamed Deif, after credible reports of his death, according to Reuters.

The guest was wanted in connection with crimes committed during Hamas' October 2023 attack on southern Israel, which sparked the war in Gaza.

The prosecution in court charged Al-Dhaif with mass murder, rape and hostage-taking.

Al-Daif was killed in an Israeli airstrike last year, but Hamas did not confirm his death until late January.

The prosecutor's office said Thursday that the investigation was ongoing and that it would not hesitate to seek arrest warrants for other suspects "if it considers that there is a reasonable prospect of conviction."

“The Office is actively investigating, treating the situation as an urgent priority, and will integrate multiple additional and interconnected lines of investigation,” the Office of the Attorney General said in an email.

In November, ICC judges also issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, on charges of “war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza war.”

Netanyahu rejected the resolution, calling it "anti-Semitic" and saying the accusations were ridiculous and false.

The withdrawal of the arrest warrant issued against Al-Dhaif means that there are no longer any public arrest warrants issued by the ICC against any Palestinian militants in connection with the October 7, 2023 attack.

Attorney Yael Vias-Gversman, who represents Israelis attacked by Hamas before the ICC, said the decision to drop the case against Deif showed that more work was needed “to end impunity for the atrocities that continue to be committed by perpetrators from fundamentalist groups.”