THE International Criminal Court (ICC) is pursuing its Gaza investigation at remarkable speed and is reportedly preparing arrest warrants for Israeli officials.
THE International Criminal Court (ICC) is pursuing its Gaza investigation at remarkable speed and is reportedly preparing arrest warrants for Israeli officials. Yet it remains conspicuously silent on Iran’s direct role in the conflict — a silence that becomes harder to defend as the evidence mounts.
Iran has achieved a singular and damning statistic. After launching more than 400 missiles and drones toward Israel over nearly a month, Tehran has apparently failed to hit a single military target. The result is a 100% civilian casualty ratio: Virtually every victim has been a non-combatant.
Not long ago, casualty ratios dominated discussions of the Israel-Gaza war, with critics claiming that civilian deaths alone proved war crimes. In reality, fighting Hamas which deliberately hides behind its own population, Israel managed a combatant-to-civilian fatality ratio of roughly 30–40% — a figure that military historians would consider unusually low for dense urban warfare.
Yet now that Iran is directing nearly all its firepower at civilians, the same voices have fallen quiet, and the ICC has done nothing.
