CAIRO – 22 November 2024: Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris said that Irish police will arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he comes to Irelan. He affirmed that his country supports international courts and implement their decisions.
The Italian Defense Minister also announced on Thursday that “If Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits Rome, we will have to arrest him.”
Josep Borrell, the European Union's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, stressed that the arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court are binding for all EU member states.
The White House, however, rejected the International Criminal Court's decision to issue arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamine Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
“The United States fundamentally rejects the Court’s decision to issue arrest warrants for senior Israeli officials. We remain deeply concerned by the Prosecutor’s rush to seek arrest warrants and the troubling process errors that led to this decision,” White House National Security Council spokesperson said on Thursday, adding the U.S. is discussing next steps with its partners.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued on Thursday an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamine Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
The Pre-trial Chamber 1 of the ICC issued on Thursday the arrest warrant against Netanyahu and Gallant for commuting “crimes against humanity and war crimes committed from at least 8 October 2023 until at least 20 May 2024, the day the Prosecution filed the applications for warrants of arrest.”
“The Chamber found reasonable grounds to believe that Mr Netanyahu, born on 21 October 1949, Prime Minister of Israel at the time of the relevant conduct, and Mr Gallant, born on 8 November 1958, Minister of Defence of Israel at the time of the alleged conduct, each bear criminal responsibility for the following crimes as co-perpetrators for committing the acts jointly with others: the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare; and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts,” the court said in a statement.
In a statement, the Hamas movement welcomed the court’s decision and call d for expanding the scope of accountability against the Israeli officials over war crimes against the Palestinians.
The movement added that this step “constitutes an important historical precedent, and a correction to a long path of historical injustice against our people.”
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