Reasoning behind decision that also included warrants for former defence secretary as well as Hamas’s military leader

Benjamin Netanyahu has become the first leader of a “western-style” democracy to have an arrest warrant issued in his name by the international criminal court. The court has also issued warrants for his former defence secretary, Yoav Gallant, and the Hamas military leader, Mohammed Deif.

Here the Guardian explains why the warrants have been issued and what they mean in practice.