The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued warrants of arrest for Israeli Prime Pinister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s former minister of defence Yoav Gallant and Mohammed Deif of Hamas, who Israel claims to have killed in an airstrike in July this year.
There 124 countries are state parties to the Rome Statute of the ICC; 33 are African States, 19 are Asia-Pacific States, 19 are Eastern European States, 28 are Latin American and Caribbean States, and 25 are Western European and other States.
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Al Jazeerah reported that the European Union’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell Fontelles, said all of the bloc’s 27 member states are obligated to enforce ICC rulings. However, not all of them have confirmed that they will abide by the arrest warrants.
So far, Canada, Italy, Netherlands and France, among other countries, have confirmed that they will arrest Netanyahu should he set foot on their soil. Jordan and Turkey have also pledge to abide by the ICC’s request to arrest Netanyahu.
Here are the countries where Netanyahu is likely to be arrested
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Meanwhile, Netanyahu has accused the ICC of anti-Semitism, calling the issuing of the arrest warrants “a modern-day Dreyfus trial”.
Following the ICC’s decision, Netanyahu said Israel rejects the “false and absurd” charges of the International Criminal Court, labelling it a biased and discriminatory political body.
“No war is more just than the war Israel has been waging in Gaza since October 7th 2023, when the Hamas terrorist organisation launched a murderous assault and perpetrated the largest massacre against the Jewish people since the Holocaust.
“The decision to issue an arrest warrant against the Prime Minister was made by a corrupt chief prosecutor who is trying to save himself from sexual harassment accusations and biased judges who are motivated by antisemitic hatred of Israel. No anti-Israel decision will prevent the State of Israel from defending its citizens,” Netanyahu posted on X (formerly Twitter).
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